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We re all natural born chemists. Every time we cook, clean, take a shower, drive a car, use a solvent, such as fingernail polish remover, or perform any of the countless everyday activities that involve complex chemical reactions we re doing chemistry. You might even say that we re all participating in a grand chemistry experiment that started with the first human who mixed pigments to do a cave painting. Why do so many of us desperately resist learning chemistry when we re young? Maybe it has something to do with the way it s taught in school.

Now there s a fun, easy way to learn basic chemistry. Whether you re studying chemistry in school and you re looking for a little help making sense of what s being taught in class, or you re just into learning new things for their own sake, Chemistry For Dummies gets you rolling with all the basics of matter and energy, atoms and molecules, acids and bases, and much more. In no time you ll:

Understand atomic structure and function
Use the Periodic Table of elements
Know what happens when matter changes from one state to another
Explore ionic and covalent bonding
Get a handle on chemical reactions
Perform simple chemistry calculations
Understand acids, bases, pHs, antacids, and gases
Make sense Boyle s Law, Avrogadro s Law and other key laws in chemistry

Packed with examples of chemistry in action in everyday life, Chemistry For Dummies is a fascinating exploration of broad range of topics in chemistry, including:

States of matter, from the macroscopic to the microscopic
Understanding how the elements are arranged in the Periodic Table
Nuclear chemistry, radioactivity and radioactive decay
Positive and negative ions and ionic compounds
Covalent bonding in covalent compounds
Chemical reactions, chemical equilibrium, and electrochemistry
The mole and how it s used to calculate chemical reactions
Great serendipitous discoveries in chemistry
Environmental chemistry

Written in plain English and requiring only basic math, Chemistry For Dummies puts you on the fast track to mastering the basics of chemistry.

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John Wiley & Sons
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21 January 2003
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19.05 x 1.91 x 24.13 cm
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0764554301
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Includes examples of chemistry in action in everyday life

See how chemistry works in everything from soaps to medicines to petroleum

Whether you′re taking a chemistry course or you′re curious about what chemists do, this fun and easy guide will get you up to speed in matter and energy, elements and atoms, acids and gases, and much more. You′ll understand the basic concepts and discover how chemistry affects our day–to–day lives – from the home to the environment.

The Dummies Way
∗ Explanations in plain English
∗ "Get in, get out" information
∗ Icons and other navigational aids
∗ Tear–out cheat sheet
∗ Top ten lists
∗ A dash of humor and fun

About the Author

John T. Moore Ed.D. has been a teacher for more than thirty years. Numerous grants have permitted him to focus on the professional development of elementary and middle school teachers in science.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ John Wiley & Sons (21 January 2003)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0764554301
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0764554308
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 19.05 x 1.91 x 24.13 cm

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John Moore grew up in the foothills of Western North Carolina. He attended the University of North Carolina -Asheville where he received his bachelor's degree in chemistry. He earned his Master's degree in chemistry from Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. After a stint in the United States Army he decided to try his hand at teaching. In 1971, he joined the chemistry faculty of Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas where he still teaches chemistry. In 1985 he started back to school part time and in 1991 received his Doctorate in Education from Texas A&M University.

John's area of specialty is chemical education, especially at the pre-high school level. He has been the co-editor (along with one of his former students) of the Chemistry for Kids feature of The Journal of Chemical Education. He has authored numerous chemistry books including Chemistry for Dummies, Chemistry Made Simple,Chemistry for the Utterly Confused and Biochemistry for Dummies. He is currently working on a college textbook.

John lives in Nacogdoches, Texas with his wife Robin and their two dogs and two cats. He enjoys brewing his own beer and mead and working with wood. Lately he has been creating custom knife handles and pens from exotic woods. And he loves to cook. His two boys, Jason and Matt, remain in the mountains of North Carolina along with his wonderful twin grandbabies, Sadie and Zane, and his fabulous daughter-in-law Sara.

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cubley

Really great book for beginners like me who aren't [too] slow! :D

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It's a nice introduction to chemistry, and although it features a clueless looking man on the front and "for dummies" pasted across it it actually progresses quite quickly and gets to the point without blathering on and on like some books do. It essentially ignores the old Bohr model of the atom and works with the quantum model early on, which definitely helps! Love it!

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Marcin

Great chemistry refresher

Reviewed in the United States on 17 May 2011

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It's been over 15 years since i took chem in high school. I didn't use much of what i learned for a long time, but of late work has been reminding me that i needed to refresh my memory on chemistry. This is an easy read and good info throughout. I have the Kindle version and the only thing i didn't care for is the formatting of the graphics and tables. Many are hard to see or have columns that get cut off. The publisher dropped the ball on that. I won't fault the author, as the paper version looks great.

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shelley2000

worked!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 May 2018

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This was for my daughter when she was at international school when we lived overseas. She found it useful but didn't like the dummies bit in the title. Teenagers!

McLovin

Easy to follow

Reviewed in Canada on 23 January 2019

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Want to get just the basics... this is for you.

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Amazing handbook for high school, college and beyond!

Reviewed in the United States on 1 July 2011

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I am extremely happy with this book. It's a great resource for anyone currently in high school, college or university. It can also be a great reference handbook for teachers and instructors. It explains many important concepts with great detail, yet in a very concise manner. I am an International Baccalaureate student, and I found this For Dummies book really useful. The Kindle version has great formatting and such too.

I would like it better if the book was organized in a better manner. Not that it was hard to follow or anything, but I think that the chapters could be arranged in a much better order overall. Or maybe I am just biased towards the IB syllabus structure.

The book was really good anyway, and I recommend it to anyone wanting to learn some Chemistry, no matter what age.

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