Principles of General Chemistry 3rd Ed

Maybe you’re taking this course because chemistry is fundamental to understanding other natural sciences. Maybe it’s required for your major. Or maybe you just want to learn more about the impact of chemistry on society or even on your everyday life. For example, did you have cereal, fruit, and coffee for breakfast today? In chemical terms, you enjoyed nutrient-enriched, spoilage-retarded carbohydrate flakes mixed in a white emulsion of fats, proteins, and monosaccharides, with a piece of fertilizer-grown, pesticide-treated fruit, and a cup of hot aqueous extract of stimulating alkaloid. Earlier, you may have been awakened by the sound created as molecules aligned in the liquidcrystal display of your clock and electrons flowed to create a noise. You might have thrown off a thermal insulator of manufactured polymer and jumped in the shower to emulsify fatty substances on your skin and hair with purified water and formulated detergents. Perhaps you next adorned yourself in an array of pleasant-smelling pigmented gels, dyed polymeric fibers, synthetic footwear, and metal-alloy jewelry. After breakfast, you probably abraded your teeth with a colloidal dispersion of artificially flavored, dental-hardening agents, grabbed your laptop (an electronic device containing ultrathin, microetched semiconductor layers powered by a series of voltaic cells), collected some books (processed cellulose and plastic, electronically printed with lightand oxygen-resistant inks), hopped in your hydrocarbon-fueled, metal-vinyl-ceramic vehicle, electrically ignited a synchronized series of controlled gaseous explosions, and took off for class!