21st century chemistry
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21st century chemistry
Roberts and Company Publishers, c2014
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Twenty-first century chemistry
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The mission of 21st Century Chemistry is scientific literacy. This book prepares students for everyday life: From understanding nutrition labels, to monitoring global climate change and, perhaps most importantly, to making good decisions in the voting booth. Waldron accomplishes this mission by engaging students in the science. She brilliantly blends the central ideas of chemistry into stories that are relevant and familiar to her readers' own experiences. Michelle Nijhuis may have put it best in a recent New York Times opinion piece. She said: "In its crudest form, science writing simply translates the latest results from the academy: Coffee is good for you, bean sprouts are not, and your sex life is much, much worse than you thought. Better science stories put new results in context, synthesizing and analyzing what came before, what might come next, and why you should care." Waldron does just this - by weaving the chemistry in the context of riveting stories, she masterfully captures the attention of her readers.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The Story of Chemistry: The Scientific Method: Think, Measure, Re-think Chapter 2: Atoms: All About Atoms and What's Inside Them Chapter 3: Everything: The Ways We Organize and Classify Matter Chapter 4: Bonds: An Introduction to the Forces within Substances Chapter 5: Carbon: Elemental Carbon, Organic Molecules, and Carbon Footprints Chapter 6: Air: A Study of the Gases in Our Atmosphere Chapter 7: Chemical Reactions: How We Keep Track of Chemical Changes Chapter 8: Water: Why Water is Critical for Human Beings and for the Planet Chapter 9: Salts and Aqueous Solutions: The Nature of Salts and How They Interact with Water Chapter 10: pH and Acid Rain: Acid Rain and Our Environment Chapter 11: Nukes: The Fundamentals of Nuclear Chemistry Chapter 12: Energy, Power, and Climate Change: New Ways to Generate Power and Store Energy Chapter 13: Sustainability and Recycling: Finding Better Ways to Use (and Re-Use) Our Resources Chapter 14: Food: The Biochemistry of the Foods We Eat
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