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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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