This book has been written to introduce to modern chemistry. This book has helped millions of students understand and succeed in general chemistry. Its unrivaled problems, scientific accuracy, and clarity are maintained in this new edition, which is the book’s biggest revision to date.

This revision reflects the unparalleled expertise of its author team; each chapter has been updated and streamlined to remove any content not proven to increase student comprehension.

Brief Contents
CHEMICAL APPLICATIONS AND ESSAYS
PREFACE
TO THE STUDENT
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
LIST OF RESOURCES
About the Authors
A GUIDE TO USING THIS TEXT
CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING BRINGS CHEMISTRY TO LIFE
PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS HELP YOU SUCCEED IN YOUR COURSE
UPDATED END-OF-CHAPTER MATERIALS BOOST YOUR COMPREHENSION
PERSONALIZED COACHING AND FEEDBACK AT YOUR FINGERTIPS
EXTEND LEARNING BEYOND THE CLASSROOM
1 INTRODUCTION: MATTER AND MEASUREMENT
2 ATOMS, MOLECULES. AND IONS
3 STOICHIOMETRY: CALCULATIONS WITH CHEMICAL FORMULAS AND EQUA
4 REACTIONS IN AQUEOUS SOLUTION
5 THERMOCHEMISTRY
6 ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE OF ATOMS
7 PERIODIC PROPERTIES OF THE ELEMENTS
8 BASIC CONCEPTS OF CHEMICAL BONDING
9 MOLECULAR GEOMETRY AND BONDING THEORIES
10 GASES
11 LIQUIDS AND INTERMOLECULAR FORCES
12 SOLIDS AND MODERN MATERIALS
13 PROPERTIES OF SOLUTIONS
14 CHEMICAL KINETICS
15 CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUM
16 ACID-BASE EQUILIBRIA
17 ADDITIONAL ASPECTS OF AQUEOUS EQUILIBRIA
18 CHEMISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT
19 CHEMICAL THERMODYNAMICS
20 ELECTROCHEMISTRY
21 NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY
22 CHEMISTRY OF THE NONMETALS
23 TRANSITION METALS AND COORDINATION CHEMISTRY
24 THE CHEMISTRY OF LIFE: ORGANIC AND BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Appendices
Answers to Selected Exercises
Answers to Give it Some Thought
Answers to Go Figure
Glossary
Index

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