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Chapter 01 Chemistry: What is it?
Chapter 02 Stuff, matter: What is it?
0200 Stuff, matter: A theory of atoms
0201 Atoms: The building blocks of all stuffs
0202 People classifying stuffs. Why?
0201 Atoms: The building blocks of all stuffs
0202 People classifying stuffs. Why?
Chapter 03 States of matter
Chapter 04 Categories of substances according to properties
Chapter 05 Chemical reactions, chemical equations
0500 Chemical reactions vs chemical equations: Overview
0501 Chemical amount and its unit of measurement, mole
0502 The Avogadro constant: How many particles is that?
0503 The Avogadro constant: Why is it that number?
0504 Chemical formulas: What can they tell us?
0505 Chemical equations: And what can't they tell us?
0506 Limiting reactants: How much reaction can happen?
0507 Balanced chemical equations: What are they?
0508 Chemical reactions as competitions
0501 Chemical amount and its unit of measurement, mole
0502 The Avogadro constant: How many particles is that?
0503 The Avogadro constant: Why is it that number?
0504 Chemical formulas: What can they tell us?
0505 Chemical equations: And what can't they tell us?
0506 Limiting reactants: How much reaction can happen?
0507 Balanced chemical equations: What are they?
0508 Chemical reactions as competitions
Chapter 06 Carbon compounds: An introduction
Chapter 07 Properties of water and explanatory models
Chapter 08 Categories of reaction in water, modelled as competitions
Chapter 09 Aqueous solutions
0901 What is a solution, and what is not?
0902 Miscibility of liquids in each other
0903 Like dissolves like? Shades of grey
0905 Dissolution of ionic salts in water: A competition
0906 Can we predict the solubilities of ionic salts?
0907 Solution concentration
0908 Chemical species, speciation in aqueous solution
0909 Solutes: Electrolytes or non-electrolytes?
0910 Electrolytes - Strong or weak?
0911 Concentrated, dilute, strong, weak
0912 Species concentration vs. solution concentration
0913 Weak electrolytes: Getting quantitative
0902 Miscibility of liquids in each other
0903 Like dissolves like? Shades of grey
0905 Dissolution of ionic salts in water: A competition
0906 Can we predict the solubilities of ionic salts?
0907 Solution concentration
0908 Chemical species, speciation in aqueous solution
0909 Solutes: Electrolytes or non-electrolytes?
0910 Electrolytes - Strong or weak?
0911 Concentrated, dilute, strong, weak
0912 Species concentration vs. solution concentration
0913 Weak electrolytes: Getting quantitative
Chapter 10 Thermochemistry: Energy flows during chemical processes
Chapter 11 Dynamic chemical equilibrium
1100 List of modules, overview of the topic
1101 Visualizing dynamic chemical equilibrium
1102 The jargon of equilibrium
1103 The law of equilibrium, equilibrium constants
1101 Visualizing dynamic chemical equilibrium
1102 The jargon of equilibrium
1103 The law of equilibrium, equilibrium constants
Chapter 12 Acid-base chemistry in aqueous solution
Chapter 13 Oxidation and reduction, electrochemistry
Chapter 14 Solubility and precipitation of slightly soluble ionic salts
Chapter 15 Complexation reactions
Chapter 16 Chemical thermodynamics: Which way, and how far, to equilibrium?
Chapter 17 Reaction kinetics: How fast is reaction happening?
Chapter 18 Periodic variation of properties of the elements
Chapter 19 Models of atoms, and their difference from element to element
Chapter 20 Molecules: How structure affects properties
Chapter 21 Models of bonding in molecules
Chapter 22 Spectroscopy
2200 Overview of the topic
2201 Spectroscopy: Quantization of energy
2202 Light: Wave-particle "duality"
2203 UV-visible spectroscopy
2204 Beer's law
2201 Spectroscopy: Quantization of energy
2202 Light: Wave-particle "duality"
2203 UV-visible spectroscopy
2204 Beer's law
Chapter 23 Properties of the main group elements and their compounds
Chapter 24 Properties of transition elements and their compounds
Chapter 25 More chemistry of "organic" carbon compounds
ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY
Chapter 26 Earth's atmosphere
Chapter 27 Climate change, greenhouse gases
2700 The greenhouse effect, climate change: An overview
2701 Is Earth in energy balance?
2702 Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere before the Industrial Revolution
2703 So little carbon dioxide! Pffft?
2704 Does carbon dioxide affect Earth's energy balance?
2705 The "greenhouse effect"
2706 Why does carbon dioxide absorb radiations emitted from Earth?
2707 The "enhanced greenhouse effect"
2708 Why doesn't carbon dioxide absorb the radiation coming from the sun?
2709 Why are nitrogen and oxygen not greenhouse gases?
2710 Doesn't water vapour absorb all of the emitted infrared radiation?
2711 Carbon dioxide from our cars
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Chapter 28 "Acidification" of sea water
Chapter 29 Photochemical smogs
Chapter 30 Acid rain
Chapter 31 Depletion of the "ozone layer"
COMMUNICATING CHEMISTRY
Chapter 27 Communicating chemistry
LEARNING CHEMISTRY FOR UNDERSTANDING
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