Summary of Chemistry Essentials for Dummies

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Learn:

• Exactly what you need to know about matter and energy

• The basics of chemical bonds

• How to balance chemical reactions

Authors of: Chemistry Essentials for Dummies

John T. Moore

Table of Contents in Chemistry Essentials for Dummies

Introduction

About This Book

Conventions Used in This Book

Foolish Assumptions

Icons Used in This Book

Where to Go from Here

Chapter 1: Matter and Energy: Exploring the Stuff of Chemistry

Knowing the States of Matter and Their Changes

Solids, liquids, and gases

Solids

Liquids

Gases

Condensing and freezing

Melting and boiling

From solid to liquid

From liquid to gas

Skipping liquids: Sublimation

Pure Substances and Mixtures

Pure substances

Elements

Compounds

Throwing mixtures into the mix

Measuring Matter

Nice Properties You’ve Got There

Energy Types

Kinetic energy

Potential energy

Temperature and Heat

Chapter 2: What’s In an Atom?

Subatomic Particles

Centering on the Nucleus

Locating Those Electrons

The quantum mechanical model

The principal quantum number n

The angular momentum quantum number l

The magnetic quantum number ml

The spin quantum number ms

Putting the quantum numbers together

Energy level diagrams

The dreaded energy level diagram

Electron configurations

Valence electrons: Clues about chemical reactions

Isotopes and Ions

Isotopes: Varying neutrons

Ions: Varying electrons

Gaining and losing electrons

Writing electron configurations

Predicting types of bonds

Chapter 3: The Periodic Table

Repeating Patterns: The Modern Periodic Table

Arranging Elements in the Periodic Table

Grouping metals, nonmetals, and metalloids

Metals

Nonmetals

Metalloids

Arranging elements by families and periods

Chapter 4: Nuclear Chemistry

Seeing How the Atom’s Put Together

Dealing with a Nuclear Breakup: Balancing Reactions

Understanding Types of Natural Radioactive Decay

Alpha emission

Beta emission

Gamma emission

Positron emission

Electron capture

Half-Lives and Radioactive Dating

Calculating remaining radioactivity

Radioactive dating

Breaking Elements Apart with Nuclear Fission

Mass defect: Where does all that energy come from?

Chain reactions and critical mass

Coming Together with Nuclear Fusion

Chapter 5: Ionic Bonding

Forming Ions: Making Satisfying Electron Trades

Gaining and losing electrons

Losing an electron to become a cation: Sodium

Gaining an electron to become

an anion: Chlorine

Looking at charges on single-atom ions

Seeing some common one-atom ions

Possible charges: Naming ions with multiple oxidation states

Grouping atoms to form polyatomic ions

Creating Ionic Compounds

Making the bond: Sodium metal + chlorine gas = sodium chloride

Figuring out the formulas of ionic compounds

Balancing charges:

Magnesium and bromine

Using the crisscross rule

Naming ionic compounds

Dealing with multiple oxidation states

Getting names from formulas and formulas from names

Bonding Clues: Electrolytes and Nonelectrolytes

Chapter 6: Covalent Bonding

Chapter 7: Chemical Reactions

Chapter 8: Electrochemistry: Using Electrons

Chapter 9: Measuring Substances with the Mole

Chapter 10: A Salute to Solutions

Chapter 11: Acids and Bases

Chapter 12: Clearing the Air on Gases

Chapter 13: Ten Serendipitous Discoveries in Chemistry

Index

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