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CHEMISTRY LINKS: Chapter Resources

Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION TO CHEMISTRY

Chapter 2: ELEMENTS & ATOMS

Chapter 3: QUANTUM THEORY & ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE OF ATOMS

Chapter 4: PERIODIC PROPERTIES OF ELEMENTS

Chapter 5: IONS & IONIC BONDING

Chapter 6: MOLECULES & COVALENT BONDING

Chapter 7: MOLECULAR GEOMETRY & BONDING THEORIES

Chapter 8: MEASUREMENTS & CALCULATIONS

Chapter 9: STOICHIOMETRY

Chapter 10: PROPERTIES OF GASES

Chapter 11: INTERMOLECULAR FORCES, LIQUIDS & SOLIDS

Chapter 12: PROPERTIES OF SOLUTIONS

Chapter 13: CHEMICAL REACTIONS

Chapter 14: THERMOCHEMISTRY

Chapter 15: CHEMICAL KINETICS

Chapter 16: THERMODYNAMICS

Chapter 17: INTRODUCTION TO EQUILIBRIUM

Chapter 18: ACIDS & BASES

Chapter 19: ADDITIONAL ASPECTS OF EQUILIBRIUM

Chapter 20: ELECTROCHEMISTRY

Chapter 21: NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY

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CHEMISTRY LINKS: Publisher Resources
The sites below, provided by the publishers free of charge, are an excellent resource for learning new terms, concepts and to practice. Use these as much as possible to significantly increase your grade by solving sample problems and working through tutorials. Each site is a bit different from the other, so make sure you go through all of them before you decide which ones you'll use on a regular basis.

Atkins. Jones. Chemical Principles: The Quest for Insight. 2nd Ed. Freeman.

Averill. Eldredge. Chemistry: Principles, Patterns and Applications. 1st ed. Benjamin Cummings.

Brady. Senese. Chemistry: Matter and Its Changes. 4th Ed. Wiley.

Brown.LeMay. Bursten. Burdge. Chemistry: Central Science. 9th Ed. Prentice Hall.

Chang. Chemistry. 7th Ed. McGraw Hill.

Chang. General Chemistry: The Essential Concepts. 3rd Ed. McGraw Hill.

Chang. Essential Chemistry. 2nd Ed. McGraw Hill.

Corwin. Introductory Chemistry. 4th Ed. Prentice Hall.

Ebbing. Gammon. General Chemistry. 8th Ed. Houghton Mifflin.

Ebbing. Gammon. Ragsdale. Essentials of General Chemistry. 1st Ed. Houghton Mifflin.

Ebbing. Gammon. Ragsdale. Essentials of General Chemistry. 2nd Ed. Houghton Mifflin.

Eubanks. Middlecamp. Pienta. Heltzel Weaver. Chemistry in Context. 5th Ed. McGraw Hill.

Gilbert. Chemistry: The Science in Context. W. W. Norton & Company.

Hein. Arena. Foundations of College Chemistry. 11th Ed. Wiley.

Hein. Arena. Foundations of College Chemistry. 12th Ed. Wiley.

Hill. Kolb. Chemistry for Changing Times. 10th Ed. Prentice Hall.

Hill. Petrucci. General Chemistry: An Integrated Approach. 3rd Ed. Prentice Hall

Hill. Petrucci. McCreary. Perry. General Chemistry. 4th Ed. Prentice Hall.

Kelter. Mosher. Scott. Chemistry: The Practical Science. 1st Ed. Houghton Mifflin.

McMurry. Castellion. General, Organic and Biological Chemistry. 4th Ed. Prentice Hall.

McMurry. Fay. Chemistry. 4th Ed. Prentice Hall.

Olmsted. Williams. Chemistry. 4th Ed. Wiley.

Petrucci. Harwood. Herring. General Chemistry: Principles & Modern Applications. 8th Ed. Prentice Hall.

Silberberg. Chemistry: The Molecular Nature of Matter and Change. 3rd Ed. McGraw Hill.

Snyder. The Extraordinary Chemistry of Ordinary Things. 4th Ed. Wiley.

Stanitski. Eubanks. Middlecamp. Pienta. Stratton. Chemistry in Context. 4th Ed. McGraw Hill.

Tro. Introductory Chemistry. Prentice Hall.

Zumdahl. Zumdahl. Chemistry. 6th Ed. Houghton Mifflin.

Zumdahl. Zumdahl. Chemistry. 7th Ed. Houghton Mifflin.

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CHEMISTRY LINKS: Other Resources

Glossaries of Chemistry Terms

Alcyone (definitions of chemistry laws)

Chemistry-Dictionary

DiracDelta (science & engineering definitions)

Merriam Webster Dictionary

Wikipedia: Chemistry Portal

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Chemistry Resources (videos; lectures & tutorials; problems & quizzes; chemistry portals)

Periodic Table of Videos (one video for each element)

26 half-hour videos on chemistry by Annenberg

Chemistry Comes Alive

Carnegie Mellon Video Tutorials

Purdue lecture demonstrations

MIT video lectures

Power of Small (3 documentaries on nanotechnology

Ott's Screenshots: Part 1

Ott's Screenshots: Part 2

Teaching Company (DVD lectures)

AP Chemistry (CollegeBoard)

BCIT Chemistry Resources

Bishop's Online Center

Cambridge Chemistry Links

Chem Collective

Chemistry Corner

Chemistry Guide

Chemistry Project of ACS

Dingle's AP chemistry

Evans Chemistry Corner

Intute Sciences: Chemistry

Lower's Chemistry Resources

Martindale Center Chemistry Links

Nelson's Chemistry Resources

Oneonta's Chem Resources

Oxford: Links for Chemists

Purdue Chemistry Department

Regents Exams in PDF Format (1998 to Present)

Rolf Claessen's Chemistry Index

RSC's Chemistry Resources

Science Geek: Chemistry PPT

Senese's Online Center

UC Berkeley Resources

UMSL List of Chemistry Textbooks

Virtual Library on Chemistry

Widener's Chemistry Drill and Practice Tutorials

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History of Chemistry; Famous Chemists; Chemical Experiments

Biographies of Famous Chemists (Morris)

Biographies of Famous Chemists (Virtual Library)

Chemistry Stamps: Discoveries and Chemists (2007; C&EN)

Classic Papers on Chemistry

Historical Perspective of Chemistry

History of Chemistry (ChemHeritage)

Nobel Laureates in Chemistry

This week in the history of chemistry

Timeline of Chemistry (About.com)

Timeline of Discoveries in Chemistry (ChemsSoc)

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General Interest in Chemistry & Science

Alchemy (Levity)

Chemistry Conferences

Chemistry Poems (Hoffmann)

Encyclopedia of Life (catalogue of of planet's 1.8 million species)

List of Chemsitry Depts. in World

Molecular Frontiers

Reel Science (C&EN review of the science in films)

RSC's Library & Information Center

RSC's Topical Digests

National Science Digital Library

What's That Stuff (C&EN)

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Chemical Journals, Newspapers, & News Websites

Today's Top News

CHEMISTRY LINKS: Careers

Career Portals & Resources: Chemistry-Related

Launching Corporate Careers for Chemistry Majors (C&EN, 2008)

FDA Embarks on Major Hiring Initiative for its Public Health Mission (FDA; 04/2008)

American Chemical Society: Career Site

Chemical & Engineering News: Career Site

Chemical Companies (Claessen)

Chemistry Job Center

Chemistry Job Portal

Houghton Mifflin: Career Site

List of chemistry-related organizations & specialists (RSC)

Monster: Green Careers

Nature: Career Site

Science: Career Site

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Career Portals & Resources: General

6 Figure Jobs (management jobs)

Career Builder.com (job searches)

CheezHead (job searches)

EHS Careers (environmental jobs)

Hot Jobs (job searches)

Indeed (job searches)

Job (job searches)

Jobs By Fax (they fax your resume to good leads)

Linked In (develop job leads)

Monster (jobs searches & resources)

Resume Rabbit (posts your resume on 80+ sites)

Simply Hired (job searches)

Total Jobs (job searches)

USA Jobs (government jobs)

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Top News, Reports, & Guides on Careers

Hiring is Hard Work (07/2008; BW)

Community college partnerships are training workers with made-to-order skills (07/2008; Booz&Co)

Meet Your New Recruits: They Want to Eat Your Lunch (05/2008; BW)

How to Make the Big Leap in Pay, Prestige and Power (03/2008; BW)

Social Networking Graduates and Hits the Job Market (2007; BW)

Best Places to Launch a Career (2007; BW)

Student guide to graduate business programs that address social and environmental issues (2007; NetImpact)

Creating yourself as a brand (Business Week)

Millions of Jobs of a Different Collar (NY Times)

Resource on headhunters (Business Week)

Negotiating An Academic Job Offer (C&EN)

Career Basics: Advice and Resources for Scientists (Science)

Student's Planning Guide to Grad School and Beyond (National Academies)

Careers in Chemistry (Chem Info)

From Industry to Academia (C&EN)

From Bench To Management (C&EN)

Tips for Building Your Brand Identity (C&EN)

Top Chemistry-Related Companies to Work For (C&EN)

Overlooked Opportunities In Government (C&EN)

Federal Job Search Resources (C&EN)

Managing Your Academic Career (C&EN)

Opportunities For B.S. and M.S. Chemists (C&EN)

The Consulting Niche (C&EN)

Career Resources (C&EN)

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CHEMISTRY LINKS: Chapter Resources

Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION TO CHEMISTRY

http://jilawww.colorado.edu/press/bose-ein.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaprCLxG5Tg

http://www.almaden.ibm.com/vis/stm/gallery.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allotropes_of_carbon

http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/weight

http://livefromcern.web.cern.ch/livefromcern/antimatter

www.petscaninfo.com

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2006/aug/HQ_06297_CHANDRA_Dark_Matter.html

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/science.html

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Chapter 2: ELEMENTS & ATOMS

The heaviest element yet with atomic number 122? (05/2008)

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2006

http://www.iupac.org/reports/provisional/abstract04/connelly_310804.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_the_chemical_elements

http://dels.nas.edu/bcst/visualizingchemistry.shtml

http://particleadventure.org

http://www.cpepweb.org/cpep_sm_large.html

http://cmsinfo.cern.ch/outreach

Helium as a superfluid (video)

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Chapter 3: QUANTUM THEORY & ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE OF ATOMS

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Chapter 4: PERIODIC PROPERTIES OF ELEMENTS

http://chemistry.about.com/library/blperiodictable.htm

http://education.jlab.org/itselemental/ele022.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_table

http://environmentalchemistry.com/yogi/periodic

http://homepage.mac.com/dtrapp/periodic.f/chart.html

http://periodic.lanl.gov/default.htm

http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/Elements/index.html

http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/PerTable/periodic-table.pdf

http://pubs.acs.org/cen/80th/elements.html

http://www.abpi.org.uk/publications/pdfs/Periodic-table-2005.pdf

http://www.bayerus.com/msms/fun/pages/periodic/i_table.html

http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/resources/misc/weii

http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/vrchemistry/pt/

http://www.chemicalelements.com

http://www.chemicool.com

http://www.chemnetbase.com/periodic_table/01_17_86.pdf

http://www.chemnetbase.com/periodic_table/per_table.html

http://www.chemsoc.org/networks/learnnet/ptdata/table/index.htm

http://www.chemsoc.org/viselements/pages/periodic_table.html

http://www.iupac.org/reports/periodic_table/index.html

http://www.lenntech.com/periodic-chart.htm

http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/content/elements.html

http://www.nysedregents.org/testing/reftable/archreftable/chempertable.pdf

http://www.periodni.com/en/index.html

http://www.touchspin.com/chem/DisplayTable.html

http://www.vanderkrogt.net/elements

http://www.webelements.com

http://www.webqc.org/periodictable.php

http://allperiodictables.com/aptpages/apt_1_CC_Active.html

http://periodictable.com

http://www.dayah.com/periodic

http://americanelements.com

Periodic Table interactive quiz game

http://www.llnl.gov/pao/news/news_releases/2006/NR-06-10-03.html

http://www.nytimes.com

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Chapter 5: IONS & IONIC BONDING

http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/jcesoft/cca/cca0/Movies/NACL1.html

http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/osa/scire/reftable.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemoglobin

http://www.wsu.edu/~wherland/wwwlist03.htm

http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/vrchemistry/LiveChem/transitionmetals_content.html

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Chapter 6: MOLECULES & COVALENT BONDING

http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/sillymolecules/sillymols.htm

http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/acsdisplay.html?DOC=HomeMolecule\archive\motw_archive.html

http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/motm.htm

http://scienceblogs.com/moleculeoftheday

http://www.iupac.org/reports/provisional/abstract04/connelly_310804.html

http://www.3dchem.com/atoz.asp

http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/search.cgi

http://www.chemindustry.com/apps/chemicals

http://www.webqc.org/mmcalc.php

http://www.mdl.com/products/framework/chime

http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/getras.htm

http://www.wellesley.edu/Chemistry/Flick/molecules/newlist.html

http://www.claessen.net/chemistry/pub_en.html

http://molvis.sdsc.edu/visres/pdbs/titles.jsp#A

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Chapter 7: MOLECULAR GEOMETRY & BONDING THEORIES

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Chapter 8: MEASUREMENTS & CALCULATIONS

http://www.mhhe.com/physsci/chemistry/chang7/esp/tools/equations/equations.htm

http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/chemistry/general/units_en.html

http://www.edinformatics.com/math_science/scinot.htm

http://physics.nist.gov/constants

http://www.webqc.org/constants.php

http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/units.html

http://www.attoworld.de/index.html

http://www.webqc.org/scientificcalculator.php

http://www.webqc.org/unitconverters.php

http://www.alcyone.com/max/physics/laws

http://mypage.bluewin.ch/berthod/vuc/converter.html

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Chapter 9: STOICHIOMETRY

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Chapter 10: PROPERTIES OF GASES

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Chapter 11: INTERMOLECULAR FORCES, LIQUIDS & SOLIDS

http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/85/i50/8550notw1.html

http://unitednuclear.com/aerogel.htm

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Chapter 12: PROPERTIES OF SOLUTIONS

www.btinternet.com/~martin.chaplin/explan.html

http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/86/i01/8601notw7.html

http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/86/i01/8601notw1.html

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/4121ddb25aa36110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGg0ATfoBgo

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Chapter 13: CHEMICAL REACTIONS

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Chapter 14: THERMOCHEMISTRY

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Chapter 15: CHEMICAL KINETICS

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Chapter 16: THERMODYNAMICS

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Chapter 17: INTRODUCTION TO EQUILIBRIUM

pH Scale (resources on equilibrium)

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Chapter 18: ACIDS & BASES

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Chapter 19: ADDITIONAL ASPECTS OF EQUILIBRIUM

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Chapter 20: ELECTROCHEMISTRY

- Batteries: LiFePO4 Batteries: A Breakthrough For Electric Vehicles (09/2008; MetaEfficient), Best Rechargeable Batteries and Chargers Of 2008 (09/2008; MetaEfficient)

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Chapter 21: NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY

- Top News & Reports: FDA Allows Irradiation of Some Produce (08/2008; NY Times), All Eyes on India's Nuclear Prize (08/2008; BW), Mini Reactors Show Promise for Clean Nuclear Power's Future (07/2008; Popular Mechanics), DOE Lacks Critical Information Needed to Assess Its Tank Management Strategy at Hanford (07/2008; GAO report), Neutron Vision (2008; Science Vision) Forever Waste: Radioactive Waste Raises Ethical Questions of Intergenerational Responsiblities (05/2008; C&EN), Would You Have Dropped the Atomic Bomb? (2005; NPR), Atomic Age (1985; Time)

- Concise Chemistry Book Links: Polonium Poisoning of Litvinenko (2007; BBC), Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Large Hadron Collider, Three Never-Before-Observed Isotopes of Magnesium Created at NSCL(2007; MSU), Helium-8 Study Gives Insight Into Nuclear Theory (2008; DOE), Radioactive Series (Wikipedia), Radon Health Risks (EPA), International Commission on Radiological Protection, Can you Catch Radiation Sickness (2006; ES&T), National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, Fission Video 1 (YouTube), Fission Video 2 (YouTube), Atom bomb hits Nagasaki (BBC), Nuclear Bombs Video (YouTube), Patents on Atomic Bomb (2008; NPR), Atomic Testing Museum, Nuclear Reactor Video (YouTube), Three Mile Island Incident (NPR), Revisiting Chernobyl: 20 Years Later (2005; IAEA), Chernobyl: The True Scale of the Accident (2005; WHO), New Nuclear Plants Get Go-Ahead (2008; BBC), Nuclear's Tangled Economics (Business Week; 07/2008), Nuclear Crossroads(2008; High Country News), Fusion Video 1 (YouTube), Fusion Video 2 (YouTube), Solar Mystery Solved (2007; C&EN), Toakamak Video (YouTube), ITER

- Resources: CNN's Nuclear Energy Portal, DOE's Office of Nuclear Energy, European Nuclear Society, International Energy Agency, ITER Project on Fusion Energy, New Scientist's Nuclear Age, RSC's Nuclear Power Digest, World Nuclear Organization

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