by Geoff Rayner-Canham; Tina Overton
Fifth Edition ©2010
ISBN-10: 1-4292-1814-2 ISBN-13: 978-1-4292-1814-6 Cloth Text, 650 pages See available formats »
Study Tools, Review Materials, and Problems:• Pedagogy including bolded Key Terms and Key Ideas sections at the end of each chapter that summarize the main concepts students should remember.• End-of-chapter review questions have students compare and contrast properties of various • Beyond the Basics problems requiring critical thinking, have been added at the ends of chapters, to help professors make their courses more challenging and less memory based.• Element Reaction Flow-Charts at the end of each descriptive chapter, help students recall the large number and wide variety of chemical reactions and see how they are related.• Video clips of key reactions provide students with a visual image of how the reactions take place. These clips appear on the Web site and are indicated by a video icon at the appropriate place in the text. New content coverage that illustrates trends in teaching and new developments: • New expanded coverage of the 4d and 5d transition metals, it moves to a whole chapter. • The Introduction and The Polyelectronic Atom (1.3) has been revised.• A new sub-section Amorphous Silicon has been added to Network Covalent Substances (3.11) .• New sections covering Nanometal Particles and Magnetic Properties of Metals (4.6 and 4.7) .• A new sub-section The Ionic-Covalent Boundary has been added to Polarization and Covalency (5.3).• A new sub-section Quantum Dots has been added to Ionic Crystal Structures (5.4).• Isoelectronic Series in Covalent Compounds (9.3) has been revised and improved.• The "Knight's Move" (9.8) has been revised and improved.• Expanded coverage of Ionic Hydrides has been added to Hydrides (10.4). • Ammonium Ion as a Pseudo-Alkali Metal Ion (11.14) has moved from Chapter 9.• Revised and updated Chapter 24: The Rare Earth and Actinoid Elements.• The fifth edition has a second color, making the tables and text easier to read and figures much easier to comprehend.
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