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"This book is a bibliographical database of articles on thermodynamical properties of inorganic compounds, gases, solutions, metals and alloys, published between 1970 and 1987. This reference source book compiles 25,846 references about more than 13,400 systems and should be particularly useful for people working in inorganic chemical engineering, metallurgy, and new materials processing."--Preface.