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To understand, maintain, and protect the physical environment, a basic understanding of chemistry, biology, and physics, and their hybrids is useful. Rapid Review of Chemistry for the Life Sciences and Engineering demystifies chemistry for the non-chemist who, nevertheless, may be a practitioner of some area of science or engineering requiring or involving chemistry. It provides quick and easy access to fundamental chemical principles, quantitative relationships, and formulas.
Armed with select, contemporary applications, it is written in the hope to bridge a gap between chemists and non-chemists, so that they may communicate with and understand each other. Chapters 1-10 are designed to contain the standard material in an introductory college chemistry course. Chapters 11-15 present applications of chemistry that should interest and appeal to scientists and engineers engaged in a variety of fields.
Additional features include:
Over 160 solved examples clearly illustrated and explained with SI units and conversion to other units using conversion tables included.
Assists the reader in understanding organic and inorganic compounds along with their structures, including isomers, enantiomers, and congeners of organic compounds.
Provides a quick and easy access to basic chemical concepts and specific examples of solved problems.
This concise, user-friendly review of general and organic chemistry with environmental applications, will be of interest to all disciplines and backgrounds.
Introduction
Simple Categories of Inorganic Chemical Reactions
Acids, Bases, and Salts
Chemical Equilibrium
Chemical Thermodynamics and Thermochemistry
Chemical Kinetics
Electrochemistry and RED-OX Reactions
Organic Chemistry: Naming, Structure, and Isomerism
Asymmetric Centers, Functional Groups, and Characterization
The Essentials of Polymer Chemistry
Radioactivity and Nuclear Chemistry
The Atmosphere and the Chemistry of Air
Water Quality and Water Pollution
The Chemistry of Hazardous Materials
Introduction to Basic Toxicology