Golden Book of chemistry is free

[DennisR]

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[zoobyshoe]

I had no idea they were banning books like this. I just thought they were letting them go out of print. At any rate, modern books do seem exceptionally sanitized compared to the old ones.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Here's something from one of the comments at the Amazon link:

It is commonly reported that this book was banned by the US government, and pulled from all school library shelves. I have not yet seen any documentation of this report, so I suspect it is an urban legend.

 

[Borek]

Few years ago pdf version was pretty easy to locate.

 

[Vanadium 50]

Is there any evidence it was banned? Much less "unbanned"?

 

[zoobyshoe]

Is there any evidence it was banned? Much less "unbanned"?

I googled for many pages and couldn't find any evidence of any government or school system or public library system banning it. The notion it is a "banned book" is repeated over and over and over again though. About a third of links call that notion into question. It doesn't seem like anyone has any information on the origin of that idea/rumor.

 

[Evo]

You can download the book for free here.

http://chemistry.about.com/b/2012/10/01/download-the-golden-book-of-chemistry-experiments.htm