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General Chemistry (Dover Books on Chemistry) by [by] Linus Pauling is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
General ChemistryLinus Pauling0 / 0 4 comments "An excellent text, highly recommended." — ChoiceWhen it was first published, this first-year chemistry text revolutionized the teaching of chemistry by presenting it in terms of unifying principles instead of as a body of unrelated facts. Those principles included modern theories of atomic and molecular structure, quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, and thermodynamics. In addition, Dr. Pauling attempted to correlate the theories with descriptive chemistry, the observed properties of substances, to introduce the student to the multitude of chemical substances and their properties.In this extensively revised and updated third edition, the Nobel Prize–winning author maintains an excellent balance between theoretical and descriptive material, although the amount of descriptive chemistry has been decreased somewhat, and the presentation of the subject, especially in relation to the nonmetals, has been revised in such a way as to permit greater correlation with the electronic structure of atoms, especially electronegativity.The principles of quantum mechanics are discussed on the basis of the de Broglie wavelength of the electron. The
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- Author
- [by] Linus Pauling
- Publisher
- Dover Publications, Incorporated
- Published
- 1988
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781621986386
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Medical, Fiction, Reference