Chemistry Comes Alive! C C Alive! Table of Contents Index Textbooks

Chemistry in the Community, by American Chemistry Society

Chemistry in the Community, 2nd edition
by American Chemistry Society
published by Kendall Hunt Pub, Dubuque, Iowa, 1993
ISBN: 084035505x

1 Supplying Our Water Needs

1A The Quality of Our Water

1B A Look at Water and Its Contaminants

Ice Bomb (68 )

1C Investigating the Cause of the Fish Kill

Section 1 Multiple Ammonia Fountains (73 )
Section 11 Extraction of Acid with Base (73 )
Section 12 Like Dissolves Like - Demonstration (59 )
Section 7 Hardness of Solid Substances (71 )

1D Water Purification and Treatment

1E Putting It All Together: Fish Kill - Who Pays?

2 Conserving Chemical Resources

2A Use of Resources

2B Why We Use What We Do

Paramagnetism: Nitrogen and Oxygen (68 )
Paramagnetism: Compounds (68 )
Simulation of Dislocations in Metals (61 )
Heat Conduction by Diamond (61 )
Hardness of Solid Substances (61 )
Paramagnetism: Oxidation States of Manganese (61 )
Curie Point of Nickel (61 )
Thermochromism: Mercury(II) Iodide (61 )
Memory Metal (61 )

2C Conservation in Nature and the Community

2D Metals: Sources and Replacements

Section 4 Ferrimagnetism (73 )

2E Putting It All Together: How Long Will the Supply Last?

Superconductivity (71 )
Superconductivity (61 )

3 Petroleum: To Build? To Burn?

3A Petroleum in Our Lives

3B Petroleum: What Is It? What Do We Do With It?

Viscosity of Liquids (61 )
Section 3 Viscosity of Liquids (71 )

3C Petroleum as an Energy Source

Section 1 Ferrimagnetism (73 )
Section 4 Canned Heat (73 )

3D Useful Materials from Petroleum

3E Alternatives to Petroleum

3F Putting It All Together: Choosing Petroleum Futures

4 Understanding Food

4A Foods: To Build or to Burn?

4B Food as Energy

4C Foods: The Builder Molecules

4D Other Substances in Foods

4E Putting It All Together: Nutrition Around the World

5 Nuclear Chemistry in Our World

5A Energy and Atoms

Liquefaction of Carbon Dioxide (68 )

5B Radioactive Decay

5C Nuclear Energy: Powering the Universe

5D Living with Benefits and Risks

5E Putting It All Together: Separating Fact from Fiction

6 Chemistry, Air, and Climate

Boiling by Cooling (71 )

6A Living in a Sea of Air

6B Investigating the Atmosphere

Boiling by Cooling (61 )
Critical Point of Benzene (61 )
Section 8 Critical Point of Benzene (71 )
Sections 5-7 Vapor Pressure: Drinking Bird (73 )

6C Atmosphere and Climate

Section 3 Heat Conduction by Diamond (71 )

6D Human Impact on Air We Breathe

6E Putting It All Together: Is Air a Free Resource?

7 Health: Your Risks and Choices

7A Risk and Personal Decision-Making

7B Your Body's Internal Chemistry

7C Acids, Bases, and Body Chemistry

7D Chemistry at the Body's Surface

Like Dissolves Like - Demonstration (59 )
Section 1 Extraction of Acid with Base (73 )

7E Chemical Control: Drugs and Toxins in the Human Body

7F Putting It All Together: Assessing Risks

8 The Chemical Industry: Promise and Challenge

8A A New Industry for Riverwood?

8B An Overview of the Chemical Industry

8C The Chemistry of Some Nitrogen-Based Products

8D Chemical Energy -- Electrical Energy

Piezoelectric Effect (61 )

8E Putting It All Together: Chemical Industry Past, Present, and Future


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