McMurry/Fay's atoms-first text progresses from the simplest building blocks to successively more complex concepts enabling the authors to tell a cohesive story about chemistry that follows an intuitive logic. This unified thread of ideas helps students build a better foundation and ultimately gain a deeper understanding of chemical concepts. Students can more easily understand the micro-to-macro connections between unobservable atoms and the observable behavior of matter in daily life, and are brought immediately into real chemistry-instead of being forced to first spend time with arithmetic.
1. Chemistry : Matter and Measurement
2. The Structure and Stability of Atoms
3. Periodicity and the Electronic Structure of Atoms
4. Ionic Bonds and Some Main-Group Chemistry
5. Covalent Bonds and Molecular Structure
6. Mass Relationships in Chemical Reactions
7. Reactions in Aqueous Solution
8. Thermochemistry : Chemical Energy
9. Gases Their bProperties and Behavior
10. Liquids, Solids, and Phase Changes
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