THE REFERENCE BOOK FOR CHEMICALS: THE CONTENT AND APPLICATION
While studying chemistry at technical universities students use reference sources at all their classes or self-study. Reference books which are available in libraries are impossible to use on the classes as their circulation is limited and the content doesn’t correspond to the requirements of educational process. The article presents the requirements to the reference source for students studying general chemistry and inorganic chemistry at technical universities, its general contents, volume and format of reference tables. The reference source created according to the requirements contains 50 tables. Their content corresponds to five sections: 1) chemical elements and simple elements; 2) inorganic compound, minerals, mixes; 3) atoms, molecules and crystals; 4) thermodynamic and kinetic constants; 5) solutions. The small volume of the reference source, soft cover, simple binding and the reduced A5 format allows to use it in various conditions of educational process. The directory can be used as the manual for realization of a problem-solving method of students training. There are 27 examples of problem questions and tasks according to the content of the reference source.