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Chemistry in Context

ISBN10: 1264923988 | ISBN13: 9781264923984

Chemistry in Context

Chemistry in Context

ISBN10: 1264923988
ISBN13: 9781264923984
By American Chemical Society
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The goal of the American Chemical Society’s Chemistry in Context is to establish chemical principles on a need-to-know basis for non-science majors, enabling them to learn chemistry in the context of their own lives and significant issues facing science and the world. The non-traditional approach of Chemistry in Context reflects today's technological issues and the chemistry principles within them. Climate change, renewable energy, alternate fuels, nutrition, and genetic engineering are examples of issues that are covered in Chemistry in Context.

1. Portable Electronics: The Periodic Table in the Palm of Your Hand
2. The Air We Breathe
3. Radiation from the Sun
4. Climate Change
5. Water Everywhere: A Most Precious Resource
6. Energy from Combustion
7. Nuclear Energy and Other Alternative Sources
8. Energy Storage
9. The World of Polymers and Plastics
10. Brewing and Chewing
11. Nutrition
12. Health & Medicine
13. Genes and Life
14. Who Killed Dr. Thompson? A Forensic Mystery
Appendix 1 - Measure for Measure: Metric Prefixes, Conversion Factors, and Constants
Appendix 2 - The Power of Exponents
Appendix 3 - Clearing the Logja
Appendix 4 - Answers to Your Turn Questions
Appendix 5 - Answers to Selected End-of Chapter Questions Indicated in Blue in the Text
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