Chemistry

Imagination and Implication

A. Truman Schwartz

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9780126329506
• eBook ISBN: 9780323145114
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Chemistry
• Index: Chemistry

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 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.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Chemistry: Imagination and Implication
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Chapter 1. Introduction and apologia
• Chapter 2. The matter matter
• Chapter 3. Atomism— the evidence of things not seen
• Chapter 4. The chemical code
• Chapter 5. Ordering the elements: properties and periodicity
• Chapter 6. Messages from inner space
• Chapter 7. The architecture of an atom
• Chapter 8. The mathematics of matter
• Chapter 9. Chemical bonding and molecular structure
• Chapter 10. Force and form: properties of gases, liquids, and solids
• Chapter 11. Solution, pollution, and the pollution solution
• Chapter 12. Energy, enthalpy, and the first law of thermodynamics
• Chapter 13. Entropy, free energy, and the second law of thermodynamics
• Chapter 14. The constants of chemical change
• Chapter 15. The chemistry of life
• Chapter 16. Swords and plowshares: the challenge of nuclear energy
• Appendix 1: Playing the numbers
• Appendix 2: Measure for measure
• Appendix 3: What's in a name?
• Appendix 4: For thought and action: answers to problems
• Index