Chemistry. Principles and Reactions

William L. Masterton, Cecile N. Hurley9780495497929, 0495497924

This new edition of CHEMISTRY: PRINCIPLES AND REACTIONS continues to provide students with the “core” material essential to understanding the principles of general chemistry. Appropriate for either a one- or two-semester course, CHEMISTRY: PRINCIPLES AND REACTIONS, Fourth Edition is three hundred pages shorter than most general chemistry texts and lives up to its long-standing reputation as THE student-oriented text.

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Table of contents :
Front cover……Page 1
Brief Contents……Page 7
Table of contents……Page 9
Preface……Page 19
To the student……Page 25
1 – Matter and Measurements……Page 28
2 – Atoms, Molecules and Ions……Page 52
3 – Mass Relations in Chemistry – Stoichiometry……Page 77
4 – Reactions in Aqueous Solution……Page 101
5 – Gases……Page 129
6 – Electronic Structure and the Periodic Table……Page 159
7 – Covalent Bonding……Page 191
8 – Thermochemistry……Page 223
9 – Liquids and Solids……Page 253
10 – Solutions……Page 285
11 – Rate of Reaction……Page 311
12 – Gaseous Chemical Equilibrium……Page 349
13 – Acids and Bases……Page 379
14 – Equilibria in Acid-Base Solutions……Page 409
15 – Complex Ions……Page 435
16 – Precipitation Equilibria……Page 457
17 – Spontaneity of Reaction……Page 477
18 – Electrochemistry……Page 507
19 – Nuclear Reactions……Page 529
20 – Chemistry of the Metals……Page 561
21 – Chemistry of the Nonmetals……Page 581
22 – Organic Chemistry……Page 605
23 – Organic Polymers, Natural and Synthetic……Page 637
A1 – Units, Constants and Reference Data……Page 662
A2 – Properties of the Elements……Page 668
A3 – Exponents and Logarithms……Page 670
A4 – Nomenclature of Complex Ions……Page 675
A5 – Molecular Orbitals……Page 677
A6 – Answers to Even-Numbered Questions……Page 683
Index……Page 708
Table of atomic masses……Page 730