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| Introduction | |
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| About This Book | |
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| How to Use This Book | |
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| Assumptions (And You Know What They Say about Assumptions!) | |
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| How This Book Is Organized | |
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| Icons Used in This Book | |
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| Where to Go from Here | |
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| Basic Concepts of Chemistry | |
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| What Is Chemistry, and Why Do I Need to Know Some? | |
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| What Exactly Is Chemistry? | |
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| So What Does a Chemist Do All Day? | |
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| And Where Do Chemists Actually Work? | |
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| Matter and Energy | |
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| States of Matter: Macroscopic and Microscopic Views | |
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| Ice in Alaska, Water in Texas: Matter Changes States | |
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| Pure Substances and Mixtures | |
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| Measuring Matter | |
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| Nice Properties You've Got There | |
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| Energy (Wish I Had More) | |
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| Measuring Energy | |
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| Something Smaller Than an Atom? Atomic Structure | |
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| Subatomic Particles: So That's What's in an Atom | |
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| The Nucleus: Center Stage | |
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| Where Are Those Electrons? | |
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| Electron configurations (Bed Check for Electrons) | |
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| Isotopes and Ions: These Are a Few of My Favorite Things | |
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| The Periodic Table (But No Chairs) | |
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| Repeating Patterns of Periodicity | |
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| Understanding How Elements Are Arranged in the Periodic Table | |
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| Nuclear Chemistry: It'll Blow Your Mind | |
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| It All Starts with the Atom | |
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| Radioactivity and Man-Made Radioactive Decay | |
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| Natural Radioactive Decay: How Nature Does It | |
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| Half-Lives and Radioactive Dating | |
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| Gone (Nuclear) Fission | |
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| Nuclear Fusion: The Hope for Our Energy Future | |
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| Am I Glowing? The Effects of Radiation | |
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| Blessed Be the Bonds That Tie | |
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| Opposites Do Attract: Ionic Bonds | |
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| The Magic of an Ionic Bond: Sodium + Chlorine = Table Salt | |
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| Positive and Negative Ions: Cations and Anions | |
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| Polyatomic Ions | |
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| Putting Ions Together: Ionic Compounds | |
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| Naming Ionic Compounds | |
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| Electrolytes and Nonelectrolytes | |
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| Covalent Bonds: Let's Share Nicely | |
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| Covalent Bond Basics | |
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| Naming Binary Covalent Compounds | |
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| So Many Formulas, So Little Time | |
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| Some Atoms Are More Attractive Than Others | |
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| What Does Water Really Look Like? The VSEPR Theory | |
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| Chemical Cooking: Chemical Reactions | |
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| What You Have and What You'll Get: Reactants and Products | |
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| How Do Reactions Occur? Collision Theory | |
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| What Kind of Reaction Do You Think I Am? | |
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| Balancing Chemical Reactions | |
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| Chemical Equilibrium | |
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| Le Chatelier's Principle | |
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| Reacting Fast and Reacting Slow: Chemical Kinetics | |
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| Electrochemistry: Batteries to Teapots | |
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| There Go Those Pesky Electrons: Redox Reactions | |
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| Power On the Go: Electrochemical Cells | |
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| Five Dollars for a Gold Chain? Electroplating | |
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| This Burns Me Up! Combustion of Fuels and Foods | |
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| The Mole: The Chemist's Best Friend | |
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| The Mole: Can You Dig It? | |
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| Counting by Weighing | |
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| Pairs, Dozens, Reams, and Moles | |
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| Chemical Reactions and Moles | |
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| Mixing Matter Up: Solutions | |
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| Solutes, Solvents, and Solutions | |
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| Solution Concentration Units | |
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| Colligative Properties of Solutions | |
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| Smoke, Clouds, Whipped Cream, and Marshmallows: Colloids All | |
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| Sour and Bitter: Acids and Bases | |
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| Properties of Acids and Bases: Macroscopic View | |
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| What Do Acids and Bases Look Like?--Microscopic View | |
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| Acids to Corrode, Acids to Drink: Strong and Weak Acids and Bases | |
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| An Old Laxative and Red Cabbage: Acid-Base Indicators | |
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| How Acidic Is That Coffee: The pH Scale | |
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| Buffers: Controlling pH | |
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| Antacids: Good, Basic Chemistry | |
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| Balloons, Tires, and Scuba Tanks: The Wonderful World of Gases | |
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| Microscopic View of Gases: The Kinetic Molecular Theory | |
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| I'm Under Pressure--Atmospheric Pressure, That Is | |
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| Gases Obey Laws, Too--Gas Laws | |
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| Stoichiometry and the Gas Laws | |
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| Dalton's and Graham's Laws | |
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| Chemistry in Everyday Life: Benefits and Problems | |
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| The Chemistry of Carbon: Organic Chemistry | |
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| Hydrocarbons: From Simple to Complex | |
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| Functional Groups: That Special Spot | |
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| Petroleum: Chemicals for Burning or Building | |
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| Don't Be Crude, Get Refined | |
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| The Gasoline Story | |
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| Polymers: Making Big Ones from Little Ones | |
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| Natural Monomers and Polymers | |
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| Classifying Unnatural (Synthetic) Monomers and Polymers | |
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| Reduce, Reuse, Recycle--Plastics | |
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| Chemistry in the Home | |
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| Chemistry in the Laundry Room | |
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| Chemistry in the Kitchen | |
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| Chemistry in the Bathroom | |
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| Chemistry in the Medicine Cabinet | |
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| Cough! Cough! Hack! Hack! Air Pollution | |
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| Civilization's Effect on the Atmosphere (Or Where This Mess Began) | |
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| To Breathe or Not to Breathe: Our Atmosphere | |
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| Leave My Ozone Alone: Hair Spray, CFCs, and Ozone Depletion | |
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| Is It Hot in Here to You? (The Greenhouse Effect) | |
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| Brown Air? (Photochemical Smog) | |
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| "I'm Meltingggggg!"--Acid Rain | |
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| Brown, Chunky Water? Water Pollution | |
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| Where Does Our Water Come From, and Where Is It Going? | |
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| Water: A Most Unusual Substance | |
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| Yuck! Some Common Water Pollutants | |
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| Wastewater Treatment | |
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| Drinking Water Treatment | |
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| The Part of Tens | |
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| Ten Serendipitous Discoveries in Chemistry | |
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| Archimedes: Streaking Around | |
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| Vulcanization of Rubber | |
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| Right- and Left-Handed Molecules | |
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| William Perkin and a Mauve Dye | |
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| Kekule: The Beautiful Dreamer | |
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| Discovering Radioactivity | |
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| Finding Really Slick Stuff: Teflon | |
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| Stick 'Em Up!! Sticky Notes | |
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| Growing Hair | |
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| Sweeter Than Sugar | |
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| Ten Great Chemistry Nerds | |
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| Amedeo Avogadro | |
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| Niels Bohr | |
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| Marie (Madame) Curie | |
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| John Dalton | |
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| Michael Faraday | |
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| Antoine Lavoisier | |
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| Dmitri Mendeleev | |
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| Linus Pauling | |
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| Ernest Rutherford | |
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| Glenn Seaborg | |
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| That Third-Grade Girl Experimenting with Vinegar and Baking Soda | |
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| Ten Useful Chemistry Web Sites | |
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| American Chemical Society | |
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| Material Safety Data Sheets | |
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| U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | |
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| Chemistry .About.Com | |
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| Webelements.com | |
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| Plastics.com | |
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| Webbook | |
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| ChemClub.com | |
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| Institute of Chemical Education | |
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| The Exploratorium | |
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| Scientific Units: The Metric System | |
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| SI Prefixes | |
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| Length | |
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| Mass | |
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| Volume | |
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| Temperature | |
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| Pressure | |
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| Energy | |
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| How to Handle Really Big or Really Small Numbers | |
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| Exponential Notation | |
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| Addition and Subtraction | |
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| Multiplication and Division | |
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| Raising a Number to a Power | |
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| Using a Calculator | |
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| Unit Conversion Method | |
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| Significant Figures and Rounding Off | |
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| Numbers: Exact and Counted Versus Measured | |
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| Determining the Number of Significant Figures in a Measured Number | |
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| Reporting the Correct Number of Significant Figures | |
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| Addition and subtraction | |
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| Multiplication and division | |
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| Rounding Off Numbers | |
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| Index | |