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Thread #105941   Message #2186533
Posted By: JohnInKansas
04-Nov-07 - 09:20 PM
Thread Name: BS: Technological Dead-ends
Subject: RE: BS: Technological Dead-ends
Rapaire -

You probably mean the CRC Standard Mathematical Tables when you refer to the CRC Handbook. I have a copy and actually have used it fairly recently. I also have two different editions of Burrington's (very similar to the CRC Math Tables, for those not familiar) which contains a few "integral equivalents" not found in the CRC Math Tables.

The CRC Math tables, however, are only one section - extracted and published separately - from the Rubber Manual, of which I also have one complete copy.

For the uninitiated, the "Rubber Manual" is the Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, so-called because it's compiled by the "Chemical Rubber Corporation" (CRC). My 41st edition (1959) is a 3,472 page collection of still (marginally?) useful data, but it goes back to ca. 1914 in origins, and so far as I know is still occasionally updated and published. Mine is missing the physical constants on a few dozen elements discovered since publication, but most of the ones missing are too expensive to be used for home projects, so I don't find their absence too much of a limitation.

John