Shows how chemistry affects our lives. * To emphasize the experimental basis of chemistry, chapters begin with demonstrations that readers can perform for themselves. * Think, Speculate, Reflect, and Ponder sections include questions that ask readers to think critically about the connections between chemistry, society, and individual values.
Work more effectively and gauge your progress as you go along! This Study Guide that is designed to accompany Snyder’s The Extraordinary Chemistry of Ordinary Things, 4th Edition, is an invaluable tool for the student, containing unusual, illustrative scenarios as well as the more traditional study-guide features, such as chapter overviews and solutions to the in-text questions. Also included are the worked-out solutions to the problems in the text along with additional exercises of the same nature and level of difficulty. Snyder’s The Extraordinary Chemistry of Ordinary Things, 4th Edition is known in the market for its strong consumer emphasis in which it takes a unique approach by using consumer products to illustrate chemical principles. Each area – chemistry and consumerism – reinforces the other in examinations of gasoline and petroleum, detergents, foods and food additives, plastics, and more.
Examines the chemistry of the substances of our everyday world. Our daily lives are immersed in chemicals; an effective way to teach and learn chemistry is by examining the goods and substances that we use in our daily lives and that affect us and our environment.
This revised and expanded edition is for the reader lacking a strong mathematical background. It makes statistics interesting and accessible by using realistic examples and offering clear, step-by-step explanations, sound pedagogy and quality exercise sets.
Shows how chemistry affects our lives. * To emphasize the experimental basis of chemistry, chapters begin with demonstrations that readers can perform for themselves. * Think, Speculate, Reflect, and Ponder sections include questions that ask readers to think critically about the connections between chemistry, society, and individual values.
Showing how chemistry affects our lives, this book takes the approach of using consumer products to illustrate chemical principles. The chapters begin with demonstrations that readers can perform. Each area - chemistry and consumerism - reinforces the other in examinations of gasoline and petroleum, detergents, plastics, and more.
