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Author Middlecamp, Catherine, author

Title Chemistry in context : applying chemistry to society / Catherine H. Middlecamp, Steven W. Keller, Karen L. Anderson, Anne K. Bentley, Michael C. Cann, Jamie P. Ellis
Edition Seventh edition
Published New York : McGraw-Hill, [2012]
New York, New York : McGraw-Hill, [2012]
©2012
©2012

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Description 1 volume (various pagings) : colour illustrations, colour maps ; 28 cm
Contents Chemistry for a sustainable future -- The air we breathe -- Protecting the ozone layer -- The chemistry of global warming -- Energy, chemistry, and society -- The water for life -- Neutralizing the threat of acid rain -- The fires of nuclear fission -- Energy from electron transfer -- The world of Polymers and plastics -- Manipulating molecules and designing drugs -- Nutrition: food for thought -- Genetic engineering and the molecules of life
Summary Following in the tradition of the first six editions, the goal of this successful, issues-based textbook, Chemistry in Context , seventh edition, is to establish chemical principles on a need-to-know basis for non-science majors, enabling them to learn chemistry in the context of their own lives and significant issues facing science and the world
Notes "A project of the American Chemical Society."
Includes index
Bibliography Includes index
Subject Biochemistry.
Environmental chemistry.
Geochemistry.
Author Anderson, Karen Louise, 1970- author
Bentley, Anne K., author
Cann, Michael C., author
Ellis, Jamie P., author
Keller, S. W. (Steven W.), author
American Chemical Society, author
LC no. 2010024045
ISBN 0073375667 (hard copy : alk. paper)
9780073375663