The image on the front cover depicts a carbon nanotube emerging from a glowing plasma of hydrogen and carbon, as it forms around particles of a metal catalyst. Carbon nanotubes are a recently discovered allotrope of carbon. Three other allotropes of carbon-buckyballs, graphite, and diamond-are illustrated at the left, as is the molecule methane, CH4, from which nanotubes and buckyballs can be made. The element carbon forms an amazing number of compounds with structures that follow from simple methane, found in natural gas, to the complex macromolecules that serve as the basis of life on our planet. The study of chemistry also follows from the simple to the more complex, and the strength of this text is that it enables students with varied backgrounds to proceed together to significant levels of achievement.
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Höhe: 26 cm
Breite: 18 cm
Dicke: 40 mm
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978-0-470-23440-2 (9780470234402)
Schweitzer Klassifikation
1. Fundamental Concepts and Units of Measurement
2. Elements, Compounds, and Chemical Reactions
3. The Mole: Relating the Microscopic World of Atoms to Laboratory Measurements
4. Reactions of Ions and Molecules in Aqueous Solutions
5. Oxidation-Reduction Reactions
6. Energy and Chemical Change
7. The Quantum Mechanical Atom
8. Chemical Bonding: General Concepts
9. Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure
10. Properties of Gases
11. Intermolecular Attractions and the Properties of Liquids and Solids
12. Properties of Solutions; Mixtures of Substances at the Molecular Level
13. Kinetics: The Study of Rates of Reaction
14. Chemical Equilibrium - General Concepts
15. Acids and Bases: A Second Look
16. Equilibria in Solutions of Weak Acids and Bases
17. Solubility and Simultaneous Equilibria
18. Thermodynamics
19. Electrochemistry
20. Nuclear Reactions and Their Role in Chemistry
21. Nonmetals, Metalloids, Metals, and Metal Complexes
22. Organic Compounds, Polymers, and Biochemicals
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