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Chemistry + materials

Five ranked references. Rank 1 is the default spine, not a requirement to read all five.

1 | Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction

William D. Callister Jr., David G. Rethwisch | Materials primary spine | Undergraduate

The standard processing-structure-properties-performance foundation across metals, ceramics, polymers, composites, and electronic materials.

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2 | Engineering Materials 1: An Introduction to Properties, Applications and Design

Michael F. Ashby, David R. H. Jones | Engineering intuition | Undergraduate

Builds transferable intuition for stiffness, strength, fracture, fatigue, creep, and material selection.

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3 | Materials Selection in Mechanical Design

Michael F. Ashby | Design / selection | Upper undergraduate / professional

Turns materials knowledge into a quantitative design process using property charts, objectives, and constraints.

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4 | Atkins' Physical Chemistry

Peter Atkins, Julio de Paula, James Keeler | Chemistry depth | Undergraduate / graduate

Core thermodynamics, kinetics, quantum chemistry, spectroscopy, and molecular statistical mechanics.

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5 | Chemistry 2e

OpenStax | Open chemistry spine | Undergraduate

Full legal general-chemistry text covering atomic/molecular structure, thermochemistry, equilibrium, kinetics, electrochemistry, and more.

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