Chemistry: Principles and Reactions
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ISBN: 0030260361 / Publisher: Brooks Cole, March 2000
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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This introductory text is about 300 pages shorter than most general chemistry texts, due to elimination of material not suitable for a beginning course. Coverage progresses from matter and measurement through organic chemistry. Learning features include key concepts and equations, concept summary problems, four different types of exercises, and boxes on real-life applications and biographical sketches of pioneers in the field. Five mathematical appendices are included. Masterton has taught chemistry and chemical thermodynamics at the University of Connecticut. Hurley is lecturer and coordinator of freshman chemistry at the University of Connecticut. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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