Chemistry
Imagination and Implication
- 1st Edition - January 1, 1973
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Author: A. Truman Schwartz
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 1 4 5 1 1 - 4
Chemistry: Imagination and Implication focuses on the importance and impact of chemistry on daily living. This book discusses the essential concepts of chemistry and its… Read more
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Request a sales quoteChemistry: Imagination and Implication focuses on the importance and impact of chemistry on daily living. This book discusses the essential concepts of chemistry and its application. Organized into 16 chapters, this book starts with an overview of the experimental facts, principles, and methods of chemistry as an aid in exercising intelligent and informed judgment in instances where controversy surrounds the interaction of chemistry with society or the individual. This text then explores the practical arts of metallurgy, which achieved a considerable degree of sophistication long before they were scientifically understood. The reader is then introduced to the atomic concept, the conservation of mass, as well as to the substances that constitute the living things. Other chapters consider the polymerization of amino acids into peptides and proteins. The final chapter examines the various applications of radioactive isotopes produced in particle accelerators. This book is intended for students and teachers who are involved in a chemistry course.
Preface1. Introduction and Apologia For Thought and Action Suggested Readings2. The Matter Matter Some Attic Ideas about Everything The Craft of the Ancient and Artful Chemical Engineer Making Gold for Fun and Profit What's Burning? A Revolution Built on Air Lavoisier and the "New Chemistry" Elements, Compounds, and Mixtures For Thought and Action Suggested Readings3. Atomism: The Evidence of Things Not Seen The Inferred Atoms of the Ancients The Matter of Mass and the Mass of Matter Dalton's Billiard Balls Atoms A.D. (After Dalton) Weighing the Unweighable Counting the Uncountable For Thought and Action Suggested Readings4. The Chemical Code The Elementary Alphabet Formulas: A Chemical Spelling Lesson Equations and Chemical Syntax Weighty Sentences For Thought and Action Suggested Readings5. Ordering The Elements: Properties and Periodicity About Order The Overactive Elements The New, Lazy, Hidden Strangers The Siberian and His System Tabular Trends For Thought and Action Suggested Readings6. Messages from Inner Space Let There Be Light A Video View of the Electron of Serendipity and Searching The α, β, γ of Radioactivity Alchemy Revisited For Thought and Action Suggested Readings7. The Architecture of an Atom of Atoms and a Particles of Nuclei and Numerology Protons, Neutrons, and Other Peculiar Particles The Case of the Curious Quantum The Equation of an Atom For Thought and Action Suggested Readings8. The Mathematics of Matter When is a Particle Not a Particle? The Abstract Atom Building up the Elements Ignorance, Uncertainty, and Electrons For Thought and Action Suggested Readings9. Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure Ionic Compounds: Please Pass an Electron Covalent Compounds: Togetherness through Sharing Some Covalent Compounds of Carbon For Thought and Action Suggested Readings10. Force and Form: Properties of Gases, Liquids, and Solids of Breezes, Brooks, and Boulders: A Brief Beginning Hot Air and High Pressure A Useful Utopia: An Ideal Equation for a Perfect Gas Molecules in Motion Liquid Assets More, about Molecules Anomalous Water: aqua vera or aqua ficta? Solids of Various Sorts For Thought and Action Suggested Readings11. Solution, Pollution, and the Pollution Solution Solutions, Solvents, and Solutes Molarity, Molality, and More Like Likes Like of Antifreeze and Osmosis An Optional aside on Acidity Clean Air Smells Funny "Water, Water, Every Where, Nor Any Drop to Drink" For Thought and Action Suggested Readings12. Energy, Enthalpy, and the First Law of Thermodynamics The Hard Law of Hard Work The Canon of Caloric Meets the Cannon of the Count ∆E = Q-W Enter: Enthalpy More Energy Spent on Enthalpy (and Vice Versa) Envoi on Energy For Thought and Action Suggested Readings13. Entropy, Free Energy, and the Second Law of Thermodynamics Changes: Real and Reversible Introducing Entropy: ∆S = Qrev/T Entropy, Energy, Efficiency, Ecology Order and Odds Thermodynamic Craps: The House Always Wins ∆G = ∆H - T∆S: It's Free! For Thought and Action Suggested Readings14. The Constants of Chemical Change Which Way are You Going? Why are You Going? How Far are You Going? Some Like it Hot—Some Don't How Fast are You Going? For Thought and Action Suggested Readings15. The Chemistry of Life The Many Molecules of Organic Chemistry Amino Acids (and Alice) of Proteins and Peptide Bonds Information about Conformation Sweetness and Light The Bases of Heredity "Better Living through Chemistry" For Thought and Action Suggested Readings16. Swords and Plowshares: The Challenge of Nuclear Energy A Glimpse of the New World New Nuclei: Structure and Stability Fragments and Fission "I Am Become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds" Stealing the Sun Peaceful Atoms Epilogue For Thought and Action Suggested ReadingsAppendix 1. Playing the Numbers The Power of Exponents Clearing the Logjam The Significance of FiguresAppendix 2. Measure for Measure The Metric System: From Micro to Mega There'll Be Some Changes Made How Hot is Hot? Conversion Factors ConstantsAppendix 3. What's in a Name? Inorganic Compounds Organic CompoundsAppendix 4. For Thought and Action: Answers to ProblemsIndex
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 1, 1973
- No. of pages (eBook): 588
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN: 9780323145114
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