
General Chemistry for Engineers
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Key Features
- Serves as a unique chemistry reference source for professional engineers
- Provides the chemistry principles required by various engineering disciplines
- Begins with an 'atoms first' approach, building from the simple to the more complex chemical concepts
- Includes engineering case studies connecting chemical principles to solving actual engineering problems
- Links chemistry to contemporary issues related to the interface between chemistry and engineering practices
Readership
Undergraduate chemical, biochemical, biological,and biomedical engineering students as well as aerospace, agricultural, civil, environmental, materials, metallurgical, petroleum, and nuclear engineering students; engineers in related fields who need a chemistry in engineering reference
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. The Periodic Table
3. Chemical Bonding – The Formation of Materials
4. Chemical Equations and Mass Balance
5. Acids and Bases
6. Properties of Gases
7. Chemical Equilibrium
8. Thermodynamics and Energy Balance
9. Kinetics and the Rate of Chemical Reactions
10. Oxidation - Reduction Reactions and Electrochemistry
11. Solids
12. Solution Chemistry
13. The Chemistry of Carbon
14. Nuclear and Radiochemistry
15. Chemical Measurement and Instrumentation
Answers to Study Questions and Problems
Appendix 1. Working with Units
Appendix 2. Using Excel
Appendix 3. Standard Half Cell Potentials
Product details
- No. of pages: 638
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2017
- Published: November 13, 2017
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128104255
- eBook ISBN: 9780128104446
About the Authors
Jeffrey Gaffney
Affiliations and Expertise
Nancy Marley
Affiliations and Expertise
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