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15 lines
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CRC handbook
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Any of the editions of the Chemical Rubber Company Handbook of Chemistry and
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Physics ; there are other CRC handbooks, such as the CRC Standard
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Mathematical Tables and Formulae, but the is the chemistry and physics
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reference. It is massive tome full of mathematical tables, physical
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constants of thousands of alloys and chemical compounds, dielectric
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strengths, vapor pressure, resistivity, and the like. Hackers have
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remarkably little actual use for these sorts of arcana, but are such
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information junkies that a large percentage of them acquire copies anyway
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and would feel vaguely bereft if they couldn't look up the magnetic
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susceptibility of potassium permanganate at a moment's notice. On hackers'
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bookshelves, the is rather likely to keep company with an unabridged Oxford
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English Dictionary and a good atlas.
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