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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>CRC handbook</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../C.html" title="C"/><link rel="previous" href="crawling-horror.html" title="crawling horror"/><link rel="next" href="creationism.html" title="creationism"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">CRC handbook</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="crawling-horror.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">C</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="creationism.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="CRC-handbook"/><dt xmlns="" id="CRC-handbook"><b>CRC handbook</b></dt></dt><dd><p>Any of the editions of the <i class="citetitle">Chemical Rubber Company
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Handbook of Chemistry and Physics</i>; there are other CRC
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handbooks, such as the <i class="citetitle">CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and
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Formulae</i>, but “<span class="quote">the</span>” CRC handbook is the chemistry
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and physics reference. It is massive tome full of mathematical tables,
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physical constants of thousands of alloys and chemical compounds,
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dielectric strengths, vapor pressure, resistivity, and the like. Hackers
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have 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 CRC handbook is rather likely to keep company with an
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unabridged Oxford English Dictionary and a good atlas.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="crawling-horror.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../C.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="creationism.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">crawling horror </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> creationism</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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