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Authors Moore and Stanitski, both winners of the ACS Pimentel Award in Chemical Education, infuse CHEMISTRY: THE MOLECULAR SCIENCE, Fifth Edition, with timely everyday applications that reveal chemistry as a lively and relevant subject that is fundamental to a broad range of disciplines such as engineering, biology, and environmental science. A revised, annotated art program emphasizes the three concept levels in a pedagogically sound approach to understanding molecules, concepts, and mathematical equations. Many of the book’s end-of-chapter questions are accompanied by interactive, assignable, online lessons in OWL—the #1 online learning system for chemistry. Engage your students in active study of chemistry with this text.
- The first five chapters of the previous edition have been condensed into three chapters. The new Chapter 1 includes material on the metric system, and significant figures (previously in Chapter 2) along with the periodic table coverage previously in Chapters 2 and 3. Chapter 2 now includes the material previously in Chapters 2 and 3. The approach to reactions in aqueous solution has been completely revised and content previous in Chapters 4 and 5 is consolidate into a new Chapter 3. Balancing chemical equations and three reaction types (precipitation; acid-base, and redox) are now discussed before quantitative treatments (reaction stoichiometry, solution concentrations and solution stoichiometry/titrations) in Chapter 3.
- Partly due to consolidating changes cited above, the book has been reduced to 20 chapters instead of 22 previously.
- Revised all Problem-Solving Examples (PSEs) to a four-step Analyze, Plan, Execute, and Check Result format. Problem-solving strategy is clearly delineated in Chapter 1 where students are provided a study strategy for problem solving examples.
- Each CO photo has an associated caption that raises chemistry-based questions that are then answered within the chapter. Specific chapter sections are noted with the questions.
- Made much greater use of annotations ("balloons") that are incorporated into award-winning illustrations; this pedagogically sound practice reduces the need for running text, helps shorten the book, and helps students learn better.
- Instructive art reinforces conceptual understanding by presenting the three levels: macroscale, nanoscale, and symbolic. Extended use of in-figure captions reduces the need for running text, helps shorten the book, and helps students learn better.
- Thorough, careful explanations of the important concepts and skills needed to apply chemistry to many different fields; important points are bulleted and in boldface type for quick review.
- FOCUS ON PROBLEM SOLVING. An overall emphasis on the four-step problem-solving process (Analyze, Plan, Execute, and Check Result) provides students with a strategy that moves them away from merely memorizing algorithmic solutions to conceptual understanding.
- EMPHASIS ON THREE CONCEPTUAL LEVELS OF CHEMISTRY. The authors emphasize the Macroscopic (laboratory or real-world phenomena), Nanoscale (particles: atoms, molecules, and ions), and Symbolic (chemical formulas and equations) conceptual levels of chemistry throughout the text.
- ESTIMATION BOXES. Many chapters include boxes that pose a problem for which a rough calculation suffices. These boxes help students learn various means of approximation and further develop "reasonableness of answer" skills that are useful for calculator-less exams such as the MCAT.
1. The Nature of Chemistry.
2. Chemical Compounds.
3. Chemical Reactions.
4. Energy and Reactions.
5. Electron Configurations and the Periodic Table.
6. Covalent Bonding.
7. Molecular Structures.
8. Properties of Gases.
9. Liquids, Solids, and Materials.
10. Fuels, Organic Chemicals, and Polymers.
11. Chemical Kinetics: Rates of Reactions
12. Chemical Equilibrium.
13. The Chemistry of Solutes and Solutions.
14. Acids and Bases.
15. Additional Aqueous Equilibria.
16. Thermodynamics: Directionality of Chemical Reactions.
17. Electrochemistry and Its Applications.
18. Nuclear Chemistry.
19. The Chemistry of the Main Group Elements.
20. Chemistry of Selected Transition Elements and Coordination Compounds.
Appendix A: Problem Solving and Mathematical Operations.
Appendix B: Units, Equivalences, and Conversion Factors.
Appendix C: Physical Constants and Sources of Data.
Appendix D: Ground-State Electron Configurations of Atoms.
Appendix E: Naming Simple Organic Compounds.
Appendix F: Ionization Constants for Weak Acids at 25°C.
Appendix G: Ionization Constants for Weak Bases at 25°C.
Appendix H: Solubility Product Constants for Some Inorganic Compounds at 25°C.
Appendix I: Standard Reduction. Potentials in Aqueous Solution at 25 °C.
Appendix J: Selected Thermodynamic Values.
Appendix K: Answers to Problem-Solving Practice Problems.
Appendix L: Answers to Exercises.
Appendix M: Answers to Selected Questions for Review and Thought.
2. Chemical Compounds.
3. Chemical Reactions.
4. Energy and Reactions.
5. Electron Configurations and the Periodic Table.
6. Covalent Bonding.
7. Molecular Structures.
8. Properties of Gases.
9. Liquids, Solids, and Materials.
10. Fuels, Organic Chemicals, and Polymers.
11. Chemical Kinetics: Rates of Reactions
12. Chemical Equilibrium.
13. The Chemistry of Solutes and Solutions.
14. Acids and Bases.
15. Additional Aqueous Equilibria.
16. Thermodynamics: Directionality of Chemical Reactions.
17. Electrochemistry and Its Applications.
18. Nuclear Chemistry.
19. The Chemistry of the Main Group Elements.
20. Chemistry of Selected Transition Elements and Coordination Compounds.
Appendix A: Problem Solving and Mathematical Operations.
Appendix B: Units, Equivalences, and Conversion Factors.
Appendix C: Physical Constants and Sources of Data.
Appendix D: Ground-State Electron Configurations of Atoms.
Appendix E: Naming Simple Organic Compounds.
Appendix F: Ionization Constants for Weak Acids at 25°C.
Appendix G: Ionization Constants for Weak Bases at 25°C.
Appendix H: Solubility Product Constants for Some Inorganic Compounds at 25°C.
Appendix I: Standard Reduction. Potentials in Aqueous Solution at 25 °C.
Appendix J: Selected Thermodynamic Values.
Appendix K: Answers to Problem-Solving Practice Problems.
Appendix L: Answers to Exercises.
Appendix M: Answers to Selected Questions for Review and Thought.
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