Chemistry: An Experimental Science

A textbook containing information pertinent to the field of chemistry. Chapters include: "Chemistry: An Experimental Science," "A Scientific Model: The Atomic Theory," "Chemical Reactions," "The Gas Phase: Kinetic Theory," "Liquids and Solids: Condensed Phases of Matter," "Structure of the Atom and the Periodic Table," "Energy Effects in Chemical Reactions," "The Rates of Chemical Reactions," "Equilibrium in Chemical Reactions," "Solubility Equilibria," "Aqueous Acids and Bases," "Oxidation-Reduction Reactions," "Chemical Calculations," "Why We Believe in Atoms," "Electrons and the Periodic Table," "Molecules in the Gas Phase," "The Bonding in Solids and Liquids," "The Chemistry of Carbon Compounds," "The Halogens," "The Third Row of the Periodic Table," " The Second Column of the Periodic Table," "The Fourth-Row Transition Elements," "Some Sixth- and Seventh-Row Elements," "Some Aspects of Biochemistry: An Application of Chemistry," and "The Chemistry of Earth, the Planets, and the St