Fundamentals of college chemistry /
Jesse H. Wood, Charles W. Keenan and William E. Bull
- New York : Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., c1972
- ix, 563 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
1. Introduction ; some physical measurements -- 2. Description of matter ; periodic classification -- 3. The Nature of atoms -- 4. Electronic arrangements in atoms -- 5. Chemical bonding -- 6. Formulas and equations ; classes and compounds -- 7. The Mole ; energy and weight relationships -- 8. Oxygen and hydrogen -- 9. Kinetic theory of gases ; gas law -- 10. Gas laws and weight relationships -- 11. Liquids and solids -- 12. Water ; solutions -- 13. Concentrations of solutions ; colligative properties -- 14. The Colloidal state -- 15. Chemical kinetics ; equilibria -- 16. Ionic equilibria -- 17. Nuclear chemistry -- 18. Inorganic chemistry : the alkali and alkaline Earth elements -- 19. Group VIIA and VIIA : The Halogens and the noble gases -- 20. Electrochemistry ; oxidation-reduction -- 21. Group VIA : The Sulfur family -- 22. Group VA : The Nitrogen family -- 23. Carbon and silicon -- 24. The Transition metals and their neighbor -- 25. Metals : their production and use -- 26. Organic chemistry I : hydrocarbons -- 27. Organic chemistry II : derivatives of the hydrocarbons -- 28. Biochemistry -- 29. Applied organic chemistry -- 30. Chemical nature of our world
This text is written for the student who chooses to take a course in chemistry as a part of his general cultural education in this technological age. The development of the sciences continues to have the most profound effect upon civilization, as indeed it has had for the past three centuries.