| Title |
Chemistry in context : applying chemistry to society / Lucy Pryde Eubanks ... [et al.]. |
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| Imprint |
Boston : McGraw-Hill Higher Education, c2009. |
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| Description |
xix, 586 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 28 cm. |
| Edition |
6th ed. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Why the spiderweb? -- The air we breathe -- Protecting the ozone layer -- The chemistry of global warming -- Energy, chemistry, and society -- Appendices: Measure for measure: conversion factors and constants -- The power of exponents -- Clearing the logjam -- Answers to your turn questions not answered in the text -- Answers to selected end-of-chapter questions indicated in color in the text. |
| Summary |
The goal of [this book] is to establish chemical principles on a need-to-know basis within a contextual framework of significant social, political, economic, and ethical issues.... [It] is not a traditional chemistry book for nonscience majors. In this book, chemistry is woven into the web of life. |
| Subject(s) |
Biochemistry.
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Environmental chemistry.
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Geochemistry.
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| Alternate Author |
Eubanks, Lucy T.
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