Laboratory manual; Chemistry in context : applying chemistry to society / edited by Jennifer A. Tripp, Lallie McKenzie.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, NY : McGraw-Hill Education, 2015.Edition: 8th edDescription: pages cm ; cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780073518121
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 540 23
LOC classification:
  • QD415 .C48
Contents:
Chemistry for a sustainable future -- The air we breathe -- Protecting the ozone layer -- The chemistry of global climate change -- Energy from combustion -- Water for life -- Neutralizing the threat of acid rain -- The fires of nuclear fission -- Energy from electron transfer? -- The world of polymers and plastics -- Manipulating molecules and designing drugs -- Nutrition : food for thought -- Genetic engineering and the molecules of life -- Appendix 1: Measure for measure : conversion factors and constants -- Appendix 2: The power of exponents -- Appendix 3: Clearing the logjam -- Appendix 4: Answers to your turn questions not answered in text -- Appendix 5: Answers to selected end-of-chapter questions indicated in color in the text -- Glossary.
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General Collection item General Collection item Athi-River Campus Open Shelves (Oversize Books Section) OS QD415.C48 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available BK98722
General Collection item General Collection item Nairobi Campus Open Shelves (Oversize Books Section) OS QD415.C48 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available BK98723

"American Chemical Society.".

"Prepared by a team of writers: Cathy Middlecamp [and five others]"--Title page verso.

Includes index.

Chemistry for a sustainable future -- The air we breathe -- Protecting the ozone layer -- The chemistry of global climate change -- Energy from combustion -- Water for life -- Neutralizing the threat of acid rain -- The fires of nuclear fission -- Energy from electron transfer? -- The world of polymers and plastics -- Manipulating molecules and designing drugs -- Nutrition : food for thought -- Genetic engineering and the molecules of life -- Appendix 1: Measure for measure : conversion factors and constants -- Appendix 2: The power of exponents -- Appendix 3: Clearing the logjam -- Appendix 4: Answers to your turn questions not answered in text -- Appendix 5: Answers to selected end-of-chapter questions indicated in color in the text -- Glossary.

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