Book Title: Chemistry and the Environment (Revisions in Progress)
Subtitle: A Chemistry Perspective for discussion of Environmental Issues
Book Description: Notice: This textbook is undergoing active revisions to improve its organization and content. Some sections and chapters may currently appear out of order as updates are being made. We appreciate your patience and understanding during this process and encourage you to reach out if you have any questions or need assistance navigating the material. Chemistry and the Environment is designed as a resource to accompany lectures for an Environmental Studies course that explores current environmental issues from a chemical perspective. It was edited from the OpenStax book Chemistry 2e.
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Chemistry 2e is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the two-semester general chemistry course. The textbook provides an important opportunity for students to learn the core concepts of chemistry and understand how those concepts apply to their lives and the world around them. The book also includes a number of innovative features, including interactive exercises and real-world applications, designed to enhance student learning. The second edition has been revised to incorporate clearer, more current, and more dynamic explanations, while maintaining the same organization as the first edition. Substantial improvements have been made in the figures, illustrations, and example exercises that support the text narrative. Changes made in Chemistry 2e are described in the preface to help instructors transition to the second edition. The first edition of Chemistry by OpenStax is available in web view here.
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Chemistry and the Environment (Revisions in Progress) Copyright © 2020 by OSCRiceUniversity/DevinRLatimer is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
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Chemistry and the Environment (Revisions in Progress) Copyright © 2020 by OSCRiceUniversity/DevinRLatimer is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
Ebook ISBN 978-0-9868123-4-7
Print ISBN 978-0-9868123-5-4
Chemistry and the Environment by Devin R Latimer (© August 21, 2020) was adapted from the OpenStax book Chemistry 2e by Paul Flowers, Klaus Theopold, Richard Langley and William R. Robinson at OSCRiceUniversity (© Jul 19, 2019 OpenStax). Textbook content produced by OpenStax (© Jul 19, 2019) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 license, except for the following changes and additions which are © August 19, 2020 by Devin R. Latimer, and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 license.
Sections Added: Introductory Focus, Focus on Air Pollution, Focus on The Ozone Layer, Focus on Climate Change, Focus on Energy, Focus on Nuclear Energy, Focus on Alternative Energy, Focus on Water Quality, Focus on Acid Precipitation, Focus on Polymers.
Various sections have had paragraphs added and discussions edited.
Sections Removed: 1.5 Measurement Uncertainty, Accuracy, and Precision, 3.2 Determining Empirical and Molecular Formulas, 4.5 Quantitative Chemical Analysis, 5.2 Calorimetry, 5.3 Enthalpy, 10.3 Phase Transitions, 10.4 Phase Diagrams, 10.6 Lattice Structures in Crystalline Solids, 11.4 Colligative Properties, 13.2 Equilibrium Constants, 13.3 Shifting Equilibria, 13.4 Equilibrium Calculations, 14.3 Relative Strengths of Acids and Bases, 14.4 Hydrolysis of Salts, 14.5 Polyprotic Acids, 14.6 Buffers, 14.7 Acid-Base Titrations, 17.2 Review of Redox Chemistry, 17.3 Electrode and Cell Potentials, 17.4 Potential, Free Energy and Equilibrium, 17.6 Corrosion, 17.7 Electrolysis, 20.3 Aldehydes, Ketones, Carboxylic Acids and Esters, 20.4 Amides and Amines, 21.5 Uses of Radioisotopes, Appendix E: Water Properties, Appendix F: Composition of Commercial Acids and Bases, Appendix G: Standard Thermodynamic Properties for Selected Substances, Appendix H: Ionization Constants of Weak Acids, Appendix I: Ionization Constants of Weak Bases, Appendix J: Solubility Products, Appendix K: Formation Constants for Complex Ions, Appendix L: Standard Electrode (Half-Cell) Potentials
Chapters Removed: 8. Advanced Theories of Chemical Bonding, 9. Gases, 12. Kinetics, 15. Equilibria of Other Reactions Classes, 16. Thermodynamics, 18. Representative Metals, Metalloids and Nonmetals, 19. Transition Metals and Coordination Chemistry
Partial sections have also been removed and various errata corrected in the editing of this book.
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