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Properties and uses of 15,000 materials--at your fingertips Only one resource lets you instantly check the properties and uses of more than 15,000 industrial materials and substances--including plastics, metals and alloys, rubbers, chemicals, woods, plants and plant extracts, textiles, finishes, foodstuffs, animal products and more. It's Materials Handbook, Fourteenth Edition, by George S. Brady, Henry R. Clauser and John Vaccari. This completely revised industry classic includes thousands of new technologies and products as well as extensive updates on existing materials to keep you current. You get concise descriptions of a material's origin, composition and applications--plus fingertip access to such essential details as: Density; Ductility; Hardness; Solubility; Specific heat; Toxicity; Melting point; Cost versus performance; Conductivity; Resistance to heat and corrosives; Principal alloys and component percentages; Magnetism; Tensile strength and elongation; And much more.