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Articles on theories, discoveries, concepts, and notable people in chemistry.

Compendium of technical data and descriptive information on chemicals and chemical phenomena. Includes descriptions of chemicals, raw materials, processes and equipment; expanded definitions of chemical entities, phenomena, and terminology; and, descriptions or identifications of trademarked products used in the chemical industries.

Basic concepts
Atoms and atomic masses
Electronic configuration of the atom
Chemical bonding
Inorganic nomenclature
Formula calculations
Chemical equations
Stoichiometry
Gases
Oxidation and reduction
Solutions
Rates and equilibrium
Acid-base theory
Organic chemistry
Periodic table.

Quantities and units
Moles and empirical formula
Calculations based on chemical equations
Concentration and solution stoichiometry
The ideal gas law and kinetic theory
Thermochemistry
Atomic structure
Chemical bonding and molecular structure
Solids and liquids
Oxidation-reduction
Properties of solutions
Thermodynamics and chemical equilibrium
Acids and bases
Precipitates and complex ions
Electrochemistry
Rates of reactions.

This book challenges the perception of chemistry as too difficult to bother with and too clinical to be any for. Cathy Cobb and Monty L Fetterolf, both professional chemists and experienced educators, introduce readers to the magic, elegance, and, yes, joy of chemistry. From the fascination of fall foliage and fireworks, to the functioning of smoke detectors and computers, to the fundamentals of digestion (as when good pizza goes bad!), the authors illustrate the concepts of chemistry in terms of everyday experience, using familiar materials. The authors begin with a bangs colourful bottle rocket assembled from common objects you find in the garage - and then present the principles of chemistry using household chemicals and friendly, non-technical language. They guide the reader through the basics of atomic structure, the nature of molecular bonds, and the vibrant universe of chemical reactions. Using analogy and example to illuminate essential concepts such as thermodynamics, photochemistry, electrochemistry, and chemical equilibrium, they explain the whys and wherefores of chemical reactions. Hands-on demonstrations, selected for their ease of execution and relevance, illustrate basic principles, and lively commentaries emphasise the fun and fascination of learning about chemistry. This delightful and richly informative book amply proves that chemistry can appeal to our intuition, logic, and - if we are willing to get down and dirty - our sense of enjoyment too --- Product Description.

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Dynamic atoms
The name's Bond ... pi bond
Special reactions
Electro-luminescence
Half a life is better than none
A little organic.

The ionists: Arrhenius and Nernst
Physical chemistry in America: Lewis and Langmuir
The third law and nitrogen: Haber and Nernst
Chemists at war: Haber, Nernst, Langmuir, and Harkins
Science and the Nazis: Nernst and Haber
Nobel prizes: Lewis and Langmuir
Nuclear chemistry: Lewis, Urey, and Seaborg
Secret of life: Pauling, Wrinch, and Langmuir
Pathological science: Langmuir
Lewis's last days.

Prologue
1. Measurements
2. Energy and matter
3. Atoms and elements
4. Compounds and their bonds
5. Chemical quantities and reactions
6. Gases
7. Solutions
8. Acids and bases
9. Nuclear radiation
10. Introduction to organic chemistry : alkanes
11. Unsaturated hydrocarbons
12. Organic compounds with oxygen and sulfur
13. Carboxylic acids, esters, amines, and amides
14. Carbohydrates
15. Lipids
16. Amino acids, proteins, and enzymes
17. Nucleic acids and protein synthesis
18. Metabolic pathways and energy production.

"Fully revised and updated, the sixth edition of this popular dictionary covers all aspects of chemistry from physical chemistry to biochemisty, and boasts broader coverage in forensics, metallurgy, and geology. It is the ideal reference resource for students of chemistry and related subjects at school or university." "Features: over 4,700 entries - including feature entries on important topics such as polymers and crystal defects, and biographies of key figures; chronologies charting the main discoveries in such fields as atomic theory, biochemistry, explosives, and physics; and recommended web links for over 200 entries updated on the Dictionary of Chemistry website."--BOOK JACKET

Fundamental concepts of thermodynamics
Heat, work, internal energy, enthalpy, and the First law of thermodynamics
The importance of state functions: internal energy and enthalpy
Thermochemistry
Entropy and the Second and Third laws of thermodynamics
The Gibbs energy and chemical equilibrium
Phase equilibria
Ideal and real solutions
Electrolyte solutions, electrochemical cells, and redox reactions
Principles of biochemical thermodynamics
Biochemical equilibria
From classical to quantum mechanics
The Schrödinger equation
Using quantum mechanics on simple systems: the free particle, the particle in a box, and the harmonic oscillator
The hydrogen atom and many-electron atoms
Chemical bonding in diatomic molecules
Molecular structure and energy levels for polyatomic molecules
Vibrational and rotational spectroscopy
Electronic spectroscopy
Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
The structure of biomolecules at the nanometer scale: X-ray diffraction and atomic force
Microscopy
The Boltzmann distribution
Statistical thermodynamics
Transport phenomena
Elementary chemical kinetics
Complex biological reactions.

Simple models
Better models
Periodicity
Let's get together : yeah, yeah, yeah
Balancing act
Organic, dude

Introduction to chemistry
Chemical measurements
Atoms and elements: molecules and compounds
Stoichiometry
Introduction to chemical reactions
Gases
Thermochemistry: the first law of thermodynamics
The electronic structure of atoms
Periodic properties of elements and atoms
Chemical bonding: fundamental concepts
Chemical bonding: shapes of molecules and molecular orbitals
Liquids and solids
Solutions and colloids
Rates of chemical reactions
Introduction to chemical equilibria
Aqueous equilibria: acids, bases, and salts
Aqueous equilibria: buffers, titrations, solubility, and complex ion equilibria
Chemical thermodynamics: free energy, entropy, and equilibria
Electrochemistry
Nuclear chemistry.

The Art of chemistry employs 187 figures to illuminate 72 essays on the mythical origins, experiments, and adventurous explorers in the annals of chemistry. Each of the eight sections tracks chemistry's incremental progress from myth to modern science, featuring the figures and diagrams that early chemists used to explain their craft. Readers will meet the deadly basilisk and the fabulous phoenix that populated the lore of pre-modern chemistry, learn the contributions to chemistry of Benjamin Franklin, and encounter Antoine Lavoisier, the father of modern chemistry. Greenberg also examines our fundamental connections with science through two personal essays, one on an adolescent friend who became a world-renowned entomology professor and the other on his quest to discover his own chemical heritage.

One of the greatest challenges facing chemists and chemical educators today is conveying the central importance and relevance of chemistry to students and society at large. Chemistry Connections: The Chemical Basis of Everyday Phenomena highlights the fundamental role of chemical principles in governing our everyday experiences and observations through a collection of provocative, topical questions. It explains the fundamental role of chemical principles in governing our everyday experiences and observations. Introductory chemistry students and educators as well as lay persons with an inquisitiveness about the world around them will find the book an informative introduction to the context of chemistry in their lives. Chemistry Connections is written in a question-and-answer format with presentations in both lay and technical terms.

1. The four elements
2. Prelude to the birth of chemistry
3. The sceptical chymist
4. The discovery of the elements
5. A nail for the coffin
6. "Only an instant to cut off that head"
7. The atom
8. Problems with atoms
9. The periodic law
10. Deciphering the atom

Peppers, nutmeg, and cloves
Ascorbic acid
Glucose
Cellulose
Nitro compounds
Silk and nylon
Phenol
Isoprene
Dyes
Wonder drugs
The pill
Molecules of witchcraft
Morphine, nicotine, and caffeine
Oleic acid
Salt
Chlorocarbon compounds
Molecules versus malaria.

In the beginning
Practice of alchemy
Genius and gibberish
Paracelsus
Trial and error
Elements of science
Born-again science
Things never seen before
Great phlogiston mystery
Mystery solved
Formula for chemistry
Search for a hidden structure
Mendeleyev
Periodic table.

Soap and Nicolas Leblanc : December 6, 1742-January 16, 1806
Color and William Henry Perkin : March 12, 1838-July 14, 1907
Sugar and Norbert Rillieux : March 17, 1806-October 8, 1894
Clean water and Edward Frankland : February 20, 1825-August 9, 1899
Fertilizer, poison gas, and Fritz Haber : December 9, 1868-January 29, 1934
Leaded gasoline, safe refrigeration, and Thomas Midgley, Jr. : May 18, 1889-November 2, 1944
Nylon and Wallace Hume Carothers : April 27, 1896-April 29, 1937
DDT and Paul Hermann Müller : January 12, 1899-October 13, 1965
Lead-free gasoline and Clair C. Patterson : June 2, 1922-December 5, 1995
Postlude.

Engineers of the invisible : making molecules
Vital signs : the molecules of life
Take the strain : materials from molecules
Burning issue : molecules and energy
Good little movers : molecular motors
Delivering the message : molecular communication
Chemical computer : molecular information.
Notes:Spiced with quotations from Primo Levi, Flann O'Brien, and Thomas Pynchon, Stories of the invisible takes us on a tour of a world few of us knew existed. The author describes, for instance, the remarkable molecular structure of spider's silk--a material that is pound for pound much stronger the steel--and shows how the Kevlar fibers in bulletproof vests were invented by imitating the alignment of molecules found in the spider's amazing thread. We also learn about the protein molecules that create movement, without which bacteria would be immobile, cells could not divide, there would be no reproduction and therefore no life. The book describes molecules shaped like miniature sculptures, containers, soccer balls, threads, rings, levers and geodesic domes, all made by sticking atoms together. Perhaps most important, Ball provides a fresh perspective on the future of molecular science, revealing how researchers are promising to reinvent chemistry as the central creative science of the 21st century.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 195) and index.

Units of energy and work and the values of some physical constants
The development of man's ideas concerning nature
Forces and related energies
Electrons in atoms and their energetics
Ordering and stability of atom and component associations
The balance between order and disorder
Dilute solutions and order-disorder balance
Systems with boundaries: compartments
Change and its control
Evolution of Earth
The principles of the chemistry of living systems
Early life: anaerobic prokaryotes
The development of anaerobic organisation: from prokaryotes to eukaryotes
The coming of dioxygen: unicellular organisms
The coming of multicellular organisms
The evolution of man and his chemistry
Survey and conclusion

Part I Ambition, Knowledge, and Public Service: 1743 to 1775
Part II Consolidation and Contestation: 1775 to 1789
Part III Revolutionary Politics: 1789 to 1794.
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-338) and index.

Contents:Prologue: Bastille Day 1791
1. Freedom's Garland
2. The Lunar Son
3. The Projector
4. The Watchmen
5. The Extraordinary Person from Penzance
6. Wild Gas
7. New Worlds
8. A Victim to Experiments
Epilogue: The Last Days of a Philosopher.

The ionists: Arrhenius and Nernst
Physical chemistry in America: Lewis and Langmuir
The third law and nitrogen: Haber and Nernst
Chemists at war: Haber, Nernst, Langmuir, and Harkins
Science and the Nazis: Nernst and Haber
Nobel prizes: Lewis and Langmuir
Nuclear chemistry: Lewis, Urey, and Seaborg
Secret of life: Pauling, Wrinch, and Langmuir
Pathological science: Langmuir
Lewis's last days.

Pierre Curie
Marie Salomea Sklodowska
Pierre and Marie in Love
Mutual Adoration
Spirits, Radioactivity and the Price of Fame
Psychic Researchers
Pierre Curie's Last Day
Rescuing Langevin From His Wife
Battered by the Press
Surgery and Suffragettes
- "Little Curies" and World War I
A Gift of Radium From the United States
Radium: Miracle Cure or Menace?
A Great Discovery - At Last
Marie Curie's Last Year
Nobel Prizes, Spanish Civil War and Fission
France Defeated
Joliot Keeps the Gestapo Guessing - Eve Curie Tours the Battlefronts
Joliot Become a Communist - Eve Curie Interviews Nehru, Gandhi and Jinnah
The Battle for Paris
Joliot's Fight for Peace and Communism
Joliot launches Peace Offensive and Charges U.S. With Using Germ Warfare in Korea
The Curie Legacy.
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 424-426) and index.

Pt. I. The biography of Leo Henryk Sternbach
A cure for troubled souls
Pearl of the Adriatic
First blossoming
A chemist of world renown
Upholding success
Pt. II. The drug that changed the world
The benzodiazepine story
The crippling cost of anxiety and the benzodiazepine revolution
A social history: putting benzodiazepine into perspective
The scientific impact of the benzodiazepines
The present and the future.

Preface
1. The four elements
2. Prelude to the birth of chemistry
3. The sceptical chymist
4. The discovery of the elements
5. A nail for the coffin
6. "Only an instant to cut off that head"
7. The atom
8. Problems with atoms
9. The periodic law
10. Deciphering the atom
Epilogue : the continuing search
appendix. A catalog of the elements

Early life and education
Preparing for the future
Paris and the Sorbonne
Pierre and Marie
The discovery of radium: a scientific breakthrough
A year of contrasts: good news, bad news
"Pierre is dead? dead? absolutely dead?"
Scandal!
The second Nobel prize, its aftermath, and War
Marie and the United States of America
Last years.
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.

An Absolutely Miserable Year
Moving On
Meeting Missy
Finally, America
The White House
New and Improved
Another Dynamic Duo
Turning to America
Again
Into the Spotlight
The End Of A Quest
Tributes and New Causes
All About Eve
The Ravages Of Another World War
Rough Waters
The Legacy.
Notes:"Marie Curie was the first person to be honored by two Nobel Prizes and she pioneered the use of radiation therapy for cancer patients. But she was also a mother, widowed young, who raised two extraordinary daughters alone: Irene, a Nobel Prize winning chemist in her own right, who played an important role in the development of the atomic bomb, and Eve, a highly regarded humanitarian and journalist, who fought alongside the French Resistance during WWII. As a woman fighting to succeed in a male dominated profession and a Polish immigrant caught in a xenophobic society, she had to find ways to support her research. Drawing on personal interviews with Curie's descendents, as well as revelatory new archives, this is a wholly new story about Marie Curie--and a family of women inextricably connected to the dawn of nuclear physics"--

In the beginning
Practice of alchemy
Genius and gibberish
Paracelsus
Trial and error
Elements of science
Born-again science
Things never seen before
Great phlogiston mystery
Mystery solved
Formula for chemistry
Search for a hidden structure
Mendeleyev

Early influences
"I came through it all honestly"
Paris
Pierre
Remarkable accidents
"The question was entirely new"
"The best sprinters"
"A beautiful color"
"What is the source of the energy?"
"I will make him an help meet for him"
"The disaster of our lives"
"We were happy"
The metamorphosis
"My children...cannot awaken life in me"
"The chemistry of the invisible"
Honor and dishonor
"She is very obstinate"
"All my strength"
The making of a myth
To pass the torch
Marie's legacy.