CHEMISTRY: THE CENTRAL SCIENCE (PAPERBACK) 13TH EDITION

1. Basic Laboratory Techniques
2. Identification of Substances by Physical Properties
3. Separation of the Components of a Mixture
4. Chemical Reactions
5. Chemical Formulas
6. Chemical Reactions of Copper and Percent Yield
7. Chemical in Everyday Life: What Are They and How Do We Know?
8. Gravimetric Analysis of a Chloride Salt
9. Solubility and the Effect of Temperature on Solubility
10. Paper Chromatography: Separation of Cations and Dyes
11. Molecular Geometries of Covalent Molecules: Lewis Structures and the VSEPR Model
12. Atomic Spectra and Atomic Structure
13. Behavior of Gases: Molar Mass of a Vapor
14. Determination of R: The Gas Law Constant
15. Activity Series
16. Electrolysis, the Faraday, and Avogadro’s Number
17. Electrochemical Cells and Thermodynamics
18. The Chemistry of Oxygen: Basic and Acidic Oxides and the Periodic Table
19. Freezing Point Depression Experiment
20. Titration of Acids and Bases
21. Reactions in Aqueous Solutions: Metathesis Reactions and Net Ionic Equations
22. Colorimetric Determination of an Equilibrium Constant in Aqueous Solution
23. Chemical Equilibrium: Le Ch®telier’s Principles
24. Hydrolysis of Salts and pH of Buffer Solutions
25. Determination of the Dissociation Constant of a Weak Acid
26. Titration Curves of Polyprotic Acids
27. Determination of the Solubility- Product Constant for a Sparingly Soluble Salt
28. Heat of Neutralization
29. Rates of Chemical Reactions I: A Clock Reaction
30. Rates of Chemical Reactions II: Rate and Order of H2O2 Decomposition
31. Introduction to Qualitative Analysis
32. Abbreviated Qualitative Analysis Scheme
Part I: Chemistry of Group 1 Cations: Pb2+, Ag+, Hg22+
Part II: Chemistry of Group 2 Cations: Pb2+, Cu2+, Bi3+, Sn4+
Part III: Chemistry of Group 3 Cations: Fe3+, Ni2+, Mn2+, Al3+
Part IV: Chemistry of Group 4 Cations: Ba2+, Ca2+, NH4+, Na+
Part V: Chemistry of Anions: SO42-, NO3-, CO32-, Cl-, Br-, I-, CrO42-, PO43-, S2-, SO32-
Part VI: Analysis of a Simple Salt
33. Colorimetric Determination of Iron
34. Solubility and Thermodynamics
35. Analysis of Water for Dissolved Oxygen
36. Preparation and Reactions of Coordination Compounds: Oxalate Complexes
37. Oxidation-Reduction Titrations I: Determination of Oxalate
38. Enthalpy of Vaporization and Clausius-Clapeyron Equation
39. Oxidation-Reduction Titrations II: Analysis of Bleach
40. Molecular Geometry: Experience with Models
41. Preparation of Aspirin and Oil of Wintergreen
42. Analysis of Aspirin
43. Crystalline Solids
Appendices
A. The Laboratory Notebook
B. Chemical Arithmetic
C. Graphical Interpretation of Data: Calibration Curves and Least-Squares Analysis
D. Summary of Solubility Properties of Ions and Solids
E. Solubility-Product Constants for Compounds at 25°C
F. Dissociation Constants for Acids at 25°C
G. Dissociation Constants for Bases at 25°C
H. Selected Standard Reduction Potentials at 25°C
I. Spreadsheets
J. Qualitative-Analysis Techniques
K. Vapor Pressure of Water at Various Temperatures
L. Names, Formulas, and Charges of Common Ions
M. Some Molar Masses
N. Basic SI Units, Some Derived SI Units, and Conversion Factors
O. Composition of Commercial Reagent Acids and Bases

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Authors
• THEODORE L. BROWN received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 1956. Since then, he has been a member of the faculty of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he is now Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus. He served as Vice Chancellor for Research, and Dean, The Graduate College, from 1980 to 1986, and as Founding Director of the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology from 1987 to 1993. Professor Brown has been an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow and has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1972 he was awarded the American Chemical Society Award for Research in Inorganic Chemistry, and received the American Chemical Society Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry in 1993. He has been elected a Fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Chemical Society.
• H. EUGENE LEMAY, JR., received his B.S. degree in Chemistry from Pacific Lutheran University (Washington) and his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1966 from the University of Illinois (Urbana). He then joined the faculty of the University of Nevada, Reno, where he is currently Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus. He has enjoyed Visiting Professorships at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, at the University College of Wales in Great Britain, and at the University of California, Los Angeles. Professor LeMay is a popular and effective teacher, who has taught thousands of students during more than 40 years of university teaching. Known for the clarity of his lectures and his sense of humor, he has received several teaching awards, including the University Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award (1991) and the first Regents’ Teaching Award given by the State of Nevada Board of Regents (1997).
• BRUCE E. BURSTEN received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin in 1978. After two years as a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Texas A&M University, he joined the faculty of The Ohio State University, where he rose to the rank of Distinguished University Professor. In 2005, he moved to his present position at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville as Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Professor Bursten has been a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow, and he is a Fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Chemical Society. At Ohio State he has received the University Distinguished Teaching Award in 1982 and 1996, the Arts and Sciences Student Council Outstanding Teaching Award in 1984, and the University Distinguished Scholar Award in 1990. He received the Spiers Memorial Prize and Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2003, and the Morley Medal of the Cleveland Section of the American Chemical Society in 2005. He was President of the American Chemical Society for 2008. In addition to his teaching and service activities, Professor Bursten's research program focuses on compounds of the transition-metal and actinide elements.
• CATHERINE J. MURPHY received two B.S. degrees, one in Chemistry and one in Biochemistry, from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1986. She received her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin in 1990. She was a National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow at the California Institute of Technology from 1990 to 1993. In 1993, she joined the faculty of the University of South Carolina, Columbia, becoming the Guy F. Lipscomb Professor of Chemistry in 2003. In 2009 she moved to the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, as the Peter C. and Gretchen Miller Markunas Professor of Chemistry. Professor Murphy has been honored for both research and teaching as a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow, a Cottrell Scholar of the Research Corporation, a National Science Foundation CAREER Award winner, and a subsequent NSF Award for Special Creativity. She has also received a USC Mortar Board Excellence in Teaching Award, the USC Golden Key Faculty Award for Creative Integration of Research and Undergraduate Teaching, the USC Michael J. Mungo Undergraduate Teaching Award, and the USC Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award. Since 2006, Professor Murphy has served as a Senior Editor for the Journal of Physical Chemistry. In 2008 she was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Professor Murphy’s research program focuses on the synthesis and optical properties of inorganic nanomaterials, and on the local structure and dynamics of the DNA double helix.
• PATRICK M. WOODWARD received B.S. degrees in both Chemistry and Engineering from Idaho State University in 1991. He received a M.S. degree in Materials Science and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Oregon State University in 1996. He spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Physics at Brookhaven National Laboratory. In 1998, he joined the faculty of the Chemistry Department at The Ohio State University where he currently holds the rank of Professor. He has enjoyed visiting professorships at the University of Bordeaux, in France, and the University of Sydney, in Australia. Professor Woodward has been an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award winner. He currently serves as an Associate Editor to the Journal of Solid State Chemistry and as the director of the Ohio REEL program, an NSF-funded center that works to bring authentic research experiments into the laboratories of first- and second-year chemistry classes in 15 colleges and universities across the state of Ohio. Professor Woodward’s research program focuses on understanding the links between bonding, structure and properties of solid state inorganic functional materials.
• MATTHEW W. STOLTZFUS received his B.S. degree in Chemistry from Millersville University in 2002 and his Ph. D. in Chemistry in 2007 from The Ohio State University. He spent two years as a teaching postdoctoral assistant for the Ohio REEL program, an NSF-funded center that works to bring authentic research experiments into the general chemistry lab curriculum in 15 colleges and universities across the state of Ohio. In 2009, he joined the faculty of Ohio State where he currently holds the position of Chemistry Lecturer. In addition to lecturing general chemistry, Stoltzfus accepted the Faculty Fellow position for the Digital First Initiative, inspiring instructors to offer engaging digital learning content to students through emerging technology. Through this initiative, he developed an iTunes U general chemistry course, which has attracted over 120,000 students from all over the world. Stoltzfus has received several teaching awards, including the inaugural Ohio State University 2013 Provost's Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Lecturer and he is recognized as an Apple Distinguished Educator.