General Chemistry / Darrell D. Ebbing, Steven D. Gammon.

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The Ninth Edition of this market-leading text has been substantially revised to meet the rapidly changing instructional demands of GENERAL CHEMISTRY professors. Known for its carefully developed, thoroughly integrated, step-by-step approach to problem solving, GENERAL CHEMISTRY, International Edition helps students master quantitative skills and build a lasting conceptual understanding of key chemical concepts. The Ninth Edition retains this hallmark approach and builds upon the conceptual focus through key new features and revisions.

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• Part I Basics of Chemistry
• 1 Chemistry and Measurement An Introduction to Chemistry
• Modern Chemistry: A Brief Glimpse
• Experiment and Explanation
• A Chemist Looks at The Birth of the Post-it Note
• Law of Conservation of Mass
• Matter: Physical State and Chemical Constitution
• Physical Measurements
• Measurement and Significant Figures
• Instrumental Methods Separation of Mixtures by Chromatography
• SI Units
• Derived Units
• Units and Dimensional Analysis (Factor-Label Method)
• 2 Atoms, Molecules, and Ions
• Atomic Theory and Atomic Structure
• Atomic Theory of Matter
• The Structure of the Atom
• Nuclear Structure; Isotopes
• Atomic Masses
• Periodic Table of the Elements
• Chemical Substances: Formulas and Names
• Chemical Formulas; Molecular and Ionic Substances
• Chemist Looks at Thirty Seconds on the Island of Stability
• Organic Compounds
• Naming Simple Compounds
• Chemical Reactions: Equations
• Writing Chemical Equations
• Balancing Chemical Equations
• 3 Calculations with Chemical Formulas and Equations Mass and Moles of Substance
• Molecular Mass and Formula Mass
• The Mole Concept
• Determining Chemical Formulas
• Mass Percentages from the Formula
• Elemental Analysis: Percentages of Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen
• Determining Formulas
• Instrumental Methods Mass Spectrometry and Molecular Formula
• Stoichiometry: Quantitative Relations in Chemical Reactions
• Molar Interpretation of a Chemical Equation
• Amounts of Substances in a Chemical Reaction
• Limiting Reactant; Theoretical and Percentage Yields
• 4 Chemical Reactions
• Ions in Aqueous Solution
• Ionic Theory of Solutions and Solubility Rules
• Molecular and Ionic Equations
• Types of Chemical Reactions
• Precipitation Reactions
• Acid-Base Reactions
• Oxidation-Reduction Reactions
• Balancing Simple Oxidation-Reduction Equations
• Working with Solutions
• Molar Concentration
• Diluting Solutions
• Quantitative Analysis
• Gravimetric Analysis
• Volumetric Analysis
• 5 The Gaseous State
• Gas Laws
• Gas Pressure and Its Measurement
• Empirical Gas Laws
• The Ideal Gas Law
• A Chemist Looks at Nitrogen Monoxide Gas and Biological Signaling
• Stoichiometry Problems Involving Gas Volumes
• Gas Mixtures; Law of Partial Pressures
• Kinetic-Molecular Theory
• Kinetic Theory of an Ideal Gas
• Molecular Speeds; Diffusion and Effusion
• Real Gases
• A Chemist Looks at Carbon Dioxide Gas and the Greenhouse Effect
• 6 Thermochemistry
• Understanding Heats of Reaction
• Energy and Its Units
• Heat of Reaction
• Enthalpy and Enthalpy Change
• Thermochemical Equations
• A Chemist Looks at Lucifers and Other Matches
• Applying Stoichiometry to Heats of Reaction
• Measuring Heats of Reaction
• Using Heats of Reaction
• Hess's Law
• Standard Enthalpies of Formation
• FuelsùFoods, Commercial Fuels, and Rocket Fuels
• Part II Atomic and Molecular Structure
• 7 Quantum Theory of the Atom
• Light Waves, Photons, and the Bohr Theory
• The Wave Nature of Light
• Quantum Effects and Photons
• A Chemist Looks at Zapping Hamburger with Gamma Rays
• The Bohr Theory of the Hydrogen Atom
• A Chemist Looks at Lasers and Compact Disc Players
• Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Numbers
• Quantum Mechanics
• Instrumental Methods Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
• Quantum Numbers and Atomic Orbitals
• 8 Electron Configurations and Periodicity Electronic Structure of Atoms
• Electron Spin and the Pauli Exclusion Principle
• Instrumental Methods Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)
• Building-Up Principle and the Periodic Table
• Instrumental Methods X Rays, Atomic Numbers, and Orbital Structure (Photoelectron. Spectroscopy)
• Writing Electron Configurations Using the Periodic Table
• Orbital Diagrams of Atoms; Hund's Rule
• A Chemist Looks at Levitating Frogs and People
• Periodicity of the Elements
• Mendeleev's Predictions from the Periodic Table
• Some Periodic Properties
• Periodicity in the Main-Group Elements
• 9 Ionic and Covalent Bonding
• Ionic Bonds
• Describing Ionic Bonds
• A Chemist Looks at Ionic Liquids and Green Chemistry
• Electron Configurations of Ions
• Ionic Radii
• Covalent Bonds
• Describing Covalent Bonds
• A Chemist Looks at Chemical Bonds in Nitroglycerin
• Polar Covalent Bonds; Electronegativity
• Writing Lewis Electron-Dot Formulas
• Delocalized Bonding: Resonance
• Exceptions to the Octet Rule
• Formal Charge and Lewis Formulas
• Bond Length and Bond Order
• Bond Energy
• Instrumental Methods Infrared Spectroscopy and Vibrations of Chemical Bonds
• 10 Molecular Geometry and Chemical Bonding Theory
• Molecular Geometry and Directional Bonding
• The Valence-Shell Electron-Pair Repulsion (VSEPR) Model
• Dipole Moment and Molecular Geometry
• A Chemist Looks at Left-Handed and Right-Handed Molecules
• Valence Bond Theory
• Description of Multiple Bonding
• Molecular Orbital Theory
• Principles of Molecular Orbital Theory
• Electron Configurations of Diatomic Molecules of the Second-Period Elements
• Molecular Orbitals and Delocalized Bonding
• A Chemist Looks at Human Vision
• A Chemist Looks at Stratospheric Ozone (An Absorber of Ultraviolet Rays)
• Part III States of Matter and Solutions
• 11 States of Matter; Liquids and Solids
• Comparison of Gases, Liquids, and Solids
• Changes of State
• Phase Transitions
• Phase Diagrams
• A Chemist Looks at Removing Caffeine from Coffee
• Liquid State
• Properties of Liquids: Surface Tension and Viscosity
• Intermolecular Forces; Explaining Liquid Properties
• A Chemist Looks at Gecko Toes, Sticky But Not Tacky
• Solid State
• Classification of Solids by Type of Attraction of Units
• Crystalline Solids; Crystal Lattices and Unit Cells
• Structures of Some Crystalline Solids
• A Chemist Looks at Liquid-Crystal Displays
• Calculations Involving Unit-Cell Dimensions
• Determining Crystal Structure by X-Ray Diffraction
• Instrumental Methods Automated X-Ray Diffractometry
• A Chemist Looks at Water (A Special Substance for Planet Earth)
• 12 Solutions
• Solution Formation
• Types of Solutions
• Solubility and the Solution Process
• A Chemist Looks at Hemoglobin Solubility and Sickle-Cell Anemia
• Effects of Temperature and Pressure on Solubility
• Colligative Properties
• Ways of Expressing Concentration
• Vapor Pressure of a Solution
• Boiling-Point Elevation and Freezing-Point Depression
• Osmosis
• Colligative Properties of Ionic Solutions
• Colloid Formation
• Colloids
• A Chemist Looks at The World's Smallest Test Tubes
• Part IV Chemical Reactions and Equilibrium
• 13 Rates of Reaction
• Reaction Rates
• Definition of Reaction Rate
• Experimental Determination of Rate
• Dependence of Rate on Concentration
• Change of Concentration with Time
• Temperature and Rate; Collision and Transition-State Theories
• Arrhenius Equation
• Reaction Mechanisms
• Elementary Reactions
• The Rate Law and the Mechanism
• Catalysis
• A Chemist Looks at Seeing Molecules React
• 14 Chemical Equilibrium
• Describing Chemical Equilibrium
• Chemical EquilibriumùA Dynamic Equilibrium
• The Equilibrium Constant
• Heterogeneous Equilibria; Solvents in Homogeneous Equilibria
• A Chemist Looks at Slime Molds and Leopards' Spots
• Using the Equilibrium Constant
• Qualitatively Interpreting the Equilibrium Constant
• Predicting the Direction of Reaction
• Calculating Equilibrium Concentrations
• Changing the Reaction Conditions; Le Châtelier's Principle
• Removing Products or Adding Reactants
• Changing the Pressure and Temperature
• Effect of a Catalyst
• 15 Acids and Bases
• Acid-Base Concepts
• Arrhenius Concept of Acids and Bases
• Bronsted-Lowry Concept of Acids and Bases
• Lewis Concept of Acids and Bases
• A Chemist Looks at Taking Your Medicine
• Acid and Base Strengths
• Relative Strengths of Acids and Bases
• Molecular Structure and Acid Strength
• Self-Ionization of Water and pH
• Self-Ionization of Water
• Solutions of a Strong Acid or Base
• The pH of a Solution
• A Chemist Looks at Unclogging the Sink and Other Chores
• 16 Acid-Base Equilibria
• Solutions of a Weak Acid or Base
• Acid-Ionization Equilibria
• Polyprotic Acids
• A Chemist Looks at Acid Rain
• Base-Ionization Equilibria
• Acid-Base Properties of Salt Solutions
• Solutions of a Weak Acid or Base with Another Solute
• Common-Ion Effect
• Buffers
• Acid-Base Titration Curves
• 17 Solubility and Complex-Ion Equilibria
• Solubility Equilibria
• The Solubility Product Constant
• Solubility and the Common-Ion Effect
• Precipitation Calculations
• Effect of pH on Solubility
• A Chemist Looks at Limestone Caves
• Complex-Ion Equilibria
• Complex-Ion Formation
• Complex Ions and Solubility
• An Application of Solubility Equilibria
• Qualitative Analysis of Metal Ions
• 18 Thermodynamics and Equilibrium
• First Law of Thermodynamics; Enthalpy
• Spontaneous Processes and Entropy
• Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
• Standard Entropies and the Third Law of Thermodynamics
• Free-Energy Concept
• Free Energy and Spontaneity
• Interpretation of Free Energy
• A Chemist Looks at Coupling of Reactions
• Free Energy and Equilibrium Constants
• Relating ?G to the Equilibrium Constant
• Change of Free Energy with Temperature
• 19 Electrochemistry
• Half-Reactions
• Balancing Oxidation-Reduction Reactions in Acidic and Basic Solutions
• Voltaic Cells
• Construction of Voltaic Cells
• Notation for Voltaic Cells
• Cell Potential
• Standard Cell Potentials and Standard Electrode Potentials
• Equilibrium Constants from Cell Potentials
• Dependence of Cell Potential on Concentration
• Some Commercial Voltaic Cells
• Electrolytic Cells
• Electrolysis of Molten Salts
• Aqueous Electrolysis
• Stoichiometry of Electrolysis
• Part V Nuclear Chemistry and Chemistry of the Elements
• 20 Nuclear Chemistry
• Radioactivity and Nuclear Bombardment Reactions
• Radioactivity
• A Chemist Looks at Magic Numbers
• Nuclear Bombardment Reactions
• Radiations and Matter: Detection and Biological Effects
• Rate of Radioactive Decay
• Applications of Radioactive Isotopes
• Energy of Nuclear Reactions
• A Chemist Looks at Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
• Mass-Energy Calculations
• Nuclear Fission and Nuclear Fusion
• 21 Chemistry of the Main-Group Elements
• General Observations About the Main-Group Elements
• Chemistry of the Main-Group Metals
• Metals: Characteristics and Production
• Bonding in Metals
• A Chemist Looks at Superconductivity
• Group IVA: The Alkali Metals
• Group IIA: The Alkaline Earth Metals
• Group IIIA and Group IVA Metals
• Chemistry of the Nonmetals
• Hydrogen
• Group IVA: The Carbon Family
• Group VA: Nitrogen and the Phosphorous Family
• A Chemist Looks at BuckminsterfullereneùA Third Form of Carbon
• Group VIA: Oxygen and the Sulfur Family
• Group VIIA: The Halogens
• Group VIIIA: The Noble Gases
• 22 The Transition Elements and Coordination Compounds
• Properties of the Transition Elements
• Periodic Trends in the Transition Elements
• The Chemistry of Two Transition Elements
• Complex Ions and Coordination Compounds
• Formation and Structure of Complexes
• Naming Coordination Compounds
• A Chemist Looks at Salad Dressing and Chelate Stability
• Structure and Isomerism in Coordination Compounds
• Valence Bond Theory of Complexes
• Crystal Field Theory
• A Chemist Looks at The Cooperative Release of Oxygen from Oxyhemoglobin
• 23 Organic Chemistry
• The Bonding of Carbon
• Hydrocarbons
• Alkanes and Cycloalkanes
• Alkenes and Alkynes
• Aromatic Hydrocarbons
• Naming Hydrocarbons
• Derivatives of Hydrocarbons
• Organic Compounds Containing Oxygen
• Organic Compounds Containing Nitrogen
• 24 Polymer Materials: Synthetic and Biological.
• Synthetic Polymers
• Synthesis of Organic Polymers
• Chemist Looks at The Discovery of Nylon
• Electrically Conducting Polymers
• Biological Polymers
• Proteins
• Nucleic Acids
• A Chemist Looks at Tobacco Mosaic Virus and Atomic Force Microscopy
• Appendixes
• A Mathematical Skills
• B Vapor Pressure of Water at Various Temperatures
• C Thermodynamic Quantities for Substances and Ions at 25 C
• D Electron Configurations of Atoms in the Ground State
• E Acid-Ionization Constants at 25 C
• F Base-Ionization Constants at 25 C
• G Solubility Product Constants at 25 C
• H Formation Constants of Complex Ions at 25 C
• I Standard Electrode (Reduction) Potentials in Aqueous Solution at 25 C
• Answers to Exercises
• Answers to Concept Checks
• Answers to Self-Assessment Questions
• Answers to Selected Odd-Numbered Problems
• Glossary
• Credits
• Index.