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100 1  Matson, Michael L.,|eauthor. 
245 10 Inorganic chemistry for dummies /|cby Michael L. Matson 
       and Alvin W. Orbaek. 
264  1 Hoboken, New Jersey :|bJohn Wiley & Sons, Inc.,|c[2013] 
264  4 |c©2013 
300    xx, 360 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
490 1  --For dummies 
500    Includes index. 
505 0  Introduction: -- About this book -- Conventions used in 
       this book -- What you don't need to read -- Foolish 
       assumptions -- How this book is organized: -- Part 1: 
       Reviewing some general chemistry -- Part 2: Rules of 
       attraction: chemical bonding -- Part 3: It's elemental: 
       dining at the periodic table -- Part 4: Special topics -- 
       Part 5: Part of tens -- Icons used in this book -- Where 
       to go from here -- Part 1: Reviewing Some General 
       Chemistry: -- Introducing inorganic chemistry: -- Building
       the foundation: -- Losing your electrons -- Splitting 
       atoms: nuclear chemistry -- Changing pH -- Getting a grip 
       on chemical bonding -- Traveling across the periodic table
       : -- Hyping up hydrogen -- Moving through the main groups 
       -- Transitioning from one side to the table to another -- 
       Uncovering lanthanides and actinides -- Diving deeper: 
       special topics: -- Bonding with carbon: organometallics --
       Speeding things up: catalysts -- Inside and out: bio-
       inorganic and environmental chemistry -- Solid-state 
       chemistry -- Nanotechnology -- Listing 40 more -- 
       Following the leader: atomic structure and periodic trends
       : -- Up an' atom: reviewing atomic terminology: -- Sizing 
       up subatomic particles -- Knowing the nucleus -- Going 
       orbital -- Distinguishing atomic number and mass number --
       Identifying isotopes -- Grouping elements in the periodic 
       table: -- Keeping up with periodic trends -- Measuring 
       atomic size -- Rating the atomic radius -- Eyeing 
       ionization energy -- Examining electron affinities -- 
       Noting electronegativity -- United States of oxidation: --
       Entering the oxidation-reduction zone: -- Following 
       oxidation state rules -- Scouting reduction potentials -- 
       Walking through a redox reaction -- Isolating elements: --
       Mechanically separating elements -- Using thermal 
       decomposition -- Displacing one element with another -- 
       Heating things up: high-temperature chemical reactions -- 
       Relying on electrolytic reduction -- Gone fission: nuclear
       chemistry: -- Noting nuclear properties: -- Using the 
       force -- Empirical strikes back -- Documenting atomic 
       decay: radioactivity: -- Alpha radiation -- Beta radiation
       -- Gamma radiation -- Half-life principle -- Blind 
       (radiocarbon) dating -- Radioisotopes -- Catalyzing a 
       nuclear reaction: -- Fission -- Fusion -- ABCs: acid-base 
       chemistry: -- Starting with the basics: acids and bases: -
       - Developing the pH scale -- Calculating pH -- Calculating
       acid dissociation -- Touring key theories: a historical 
       perspective: -- Early years -- Bronsted-Lowry theory -- 
       Accepting or donating: Lewis's theory -- Comparing Lewis 
       and Bronsted theories -- Pearson's hard and soft acids and
       bases (HSAB): -- Characterization of the hard bodies -- 
       Who you callin' soft? -- Strapping on a cape: superacids -
       - Rules Of Attraction: Chemical Bonding: -- No Mr Bond, I 
       expect you to pi bond: covalent bonding: -- Connecting the
       dots: Lewis structures: -- Counting electrons -- Placing 
       electrons -- Price tags in black ties? Formal charges -- 
       Returning to the drawing board: resonance structures -- 
       Keeping your distance: VSPR -- Ante up one electron: 
       valence-bond theory -- Summing it all up: molecular 
       orbital theory: -- Types of MOs -- Evens and odds: gerade 
       and ungerade symmetry -- Identical twins: homonuclear 
       diatomic molecules -- Fraternal twins: heteronuclear 
       diatomic molecules -- Molecular symmetry and group theory:
       -- Identifying molecules: symmetry elements and operations
       : -- Identity -- n-fold rotational axis -- Inversion 
       center -- Mirror planes -- Improper rotation axis -- It's 
       not polite to point! Molecular point groups -- Being such 
       a character table: -- Dissecting a character table -- 
       Degrees of freedom -- Glitch in the matrix: matrix math --
       Reducible reps -- Infrared and Raman active modes -- Ionic
       and metallic bonding: -- Blame it on electrostatic 
       attraction: forming ionic bonds: -- Marrying a cation and 
       an anion -- Measuring bond strength: lattice energy -- 
       Coexisting with covalent bonds -- Conducting electricity 
       in solution -- Admiring ionic crystals: -- Studying shapes
       : lattice types -- Size matters (when it's ionic) -- I'm 
       melting! Dissolving ionic compounds with water: solubility
       : -- Just add water: hydrated ions -- Counting soluble 
       compounds -- What is a metal, anyway?: -- Tracing the 
       history of metallurgy -- Admiring the properties of solid 
       metals -- Delocalizing electrons: conductivity -- 
       Analyzing alloys -- Swimming in the electron sea: metallic
       bonding theories: -- Free-electron theory -- Valence bond 
       theory -- Band theory. 
505 0  Clinging to complex ions: coordination complexes: -- 
       Counting bonds -- Seeking stability -- Grouping geometries
       -- Identifying isomers: -- Connecting differently: 
       structural isomers -- Arranged differently: stereoisomers 
       -- Naming coordination complexes -- Sorting out the salts 
       -- Creating metal complexes throughout the periodic table:
       -- Alkali metals -- Alkali earth metals -- Transition 
       metals -- Lanthanides and actinides -- Metalloids -- 
       Applying coordination complexes in the real world -- Part 
       3: It's Elemental: Dining At The Periodic Table: -- What 
       the H? hydrogen!: -- Visiting hydrogen at home: its place 
       in the periodic table -- Appreciating the merits of 
       hydrogen: -- Available in abundance -- Molecular 
       properties -- Nuclear spin -- Introducing hydrogen 
       isotopes -- Investing in hydrogen bonds: -- Forming a 
       hydrogen ion -- Creating hydrides -- Applying itself: 
       hydrogen's uses in chemistry and industry -- Earning your 
       salt: the alkali and alkaline earth metals: -- Salting the
       earth: group 1 elements: -- Lithium the outlier -- 
       Seafaring sodium -- Maintaining your brain with potassium 
       -- Rubidium, cesium, francium, oh my -- Reacting less 
       violently: the group 2 alkaline earth metals: -- Being 
       beryllium -- Magnificent magnesium -- Commonly calcium -- 
       Strontium, barium, radium -- Diagramming the diagonal 
       relationship -- Main groups: -- Placing main group 
       elements on the periodic table -- Lucky 13: the boron 
       group: -- Not-so-boring boron -- Abundance of aluminum -- 
       Mendeleev's missing link: gallium -- Increasing indium use
       -- Toxic thallium -- Diamond club: the carbon group: -- 
       Captivating carbon -- Coming in second: silicon -- Germane
       germanium -- Malleable tin cans -- Plumbing lead -- Noting
       pnictides of the nitrogen group: -- Leading the pnictides:
       nitrogen -- Finding phosphorus everywhere -- Melding the 
       metalloids: arsenic and antimony -- Keeping up with the 
       chalcogens: -- Oxygen all around -- Sulfur -- From the 
       earth to the moon -- Marco-polonium! -- (re)active singles
       : the group 17 halogens: -- Cleaning up with chlorine -- 
       Briny bromine -- Iodine -- Rarely astatine -- Lights of 
       New York: the group 18 noble gases -- Bridging two sides 
       of the periodic table: the transition metals: -- Getting 
       to know transition metals: -- Sorting t-metals into series
       -- Separating T-metals from the main group -- Partially 
       filling d-orbitals: -- Calculating an effective nuclear 
       charge -- Forming more than one oxidation state -- 
       Splitting the difference: crystal field theory and 
       transition metal complexes: -- Dividing d-orbitals -- 
       Absorbing light waves: color -- Building attraction: 
       magnetism -- Electronic structure and bonding: -- Reacting
       with other elements -- Creating coordination complexes -- 
       Adsorbing gas: t-metals in catalysis -- Finding what lies 
       beneath: the lanthanides and actinides: -- Spending 
       quality time with the rare earth elements: lanthanides: --
       Electronic structure -- Reactivity -- Lanthanide 
       contraction -- Separating the lanthanide elements -- Using
       lanthanides -- Feelin' radioactive: the actinides: -- 
       Finding or making actinides -- Examining electronic 
       structure -- Comparing reactivity: actinide versus 
       lanthanide -- Looking more closely at uranium -- Part 4: 
       Special Topics: -- Not quite organic, not quite inorganic:
       organometallics: -- Building organometallic complexes -- 
       Adhering to electron rules: -- Counting to eight: the 
       octet rule -- Calculating with the 18-electron rule -- 
       Settling for 16 electrons -- Effectively using the EAN 
       rule -- Bonding with metals: ligands -- Including carbon: 
       carbonyls -- Providing the best examples: -- e-precise 
       carbon -- e-rich nitrogen -- e-deficient boron -- Behaving
       oddly: organometallics of groups 1,2, and 12 -- Sandwiched
       together: metallocenes -- Clustering together: metal-metal
       bonding -- Creating vacancies: insertion and elimination -
       - Synthesizing organometallics -- Showing similarities 
       with main group chemistry. 
505 0  Accelerating change: catalysts: -- Speeding things up-the 
       job of a catalyst -- Considering types of catalysts: -- 
       Homogenous catalysts -- Heterogeneous -- Organocatalysts -
       - Bioinorganic chemistry: finding metals in living systems
       : -- Focusing on photosynthesis -- Climbing aboard the 
       oxygen transport -- Feeding a nitrogen fixation: -- Fixing
       nitrogen for use by organisms -- Re-absorbing nitrogen -- 
       Being human: -- Making things happen: enzymes -- Curing 
       disease: medicines -- Causing problems: toxicity -- 
       Answering when nature calls: environmental chemistry: -- 
       Eyeing key indicators -- Rocking the heavy metals -- 
       Killing me softly: pesticides -- Looking for and removing 
       contaminants -- Living in a materials world: solid-state 
       chemistry: -- Studying solid structures: -- Building 
       crystals with unit cells -- Labeling lines and corners: 
       Miller indices -- Three types of crystal structure: -- 
       Simple crystal structures -- Binary crystal structures -- 
       Complex crystals structures -- Calculating crystal 
       formation: the Born-Haber cycle -- Bonding and other 
       characteristics: -- Characterizing size -- Dissolving in 
       liquids: solubility -- Encountering zero resistance: 
       superconductivity -- Information technology: 
       semiconductors -- Synthesizing solid structures -- 
       Detecting crystal defects -- Nanotechnology: -- Defining 
       nanotechnology: -- History of nanotechnology -- Science of
       nanotechnology -- Top-down versus bottom-up -- 
       Nanomaterial's: -- Size and shape control -- Self-assembly
       and grapy goo -- Applications for nanotechnology: -- 
       Cancer therapy -- Catalysis -- Education -- Part 5: Parts 
       Of Tens: -- Ten nobels: -- Locating ligands: Alfred Werner
       -- Making ammonia: Fritz Haber -- Creating transuranium 
       elements: McMillan and Seaborg -- Adding electronegativity
       : Pauling -- Preparing plastics: Ziegler and Natta -- 
       Sandwiching compounds: Fischer and Wilkinson -- 
       Illuminating Boron Bonds: Lipscomb -- Characterizing 
       crystal structures: Hauptman and Karle -- Creating 
       cryptands: Jean-Marie Lehn -- Making buckyballs -- Tools 
       of the trade: ten instrumental techniques: -- Absorbing 
       and transmitting light waves: Uv-vis and IR -- Catching 
       diffracted light: XRD -- Rearranging excited atoms: XRF --
       Measuring atoms in solution: ICP/AA -- Detecting secondary
       electrons: SEM -- Reading the criss-crossed lines: TEM -- 
       Characterizing surface chemistry: XPS -- Evaporating 
       materials: TGA -- Cyclic voltammetry -- Tracking electron 
       spin: EPR -- Ten experiments: -- Turning blue: the clock 
       reaction -- Forming carbon dioxide -- Presence of carbon 
       dioxide -- Mimicking solubility -- Separating water into 
       gas -- Testing conductivity of electrolyte solutions -- 
       Lemon batteries -- Purifying hydrogen -- Colorful flames -
       - Making gunpowder -- Ten inorganic household products: --
       Salting your food -- Bubbling with hydrogen peroxide -- 
       Baking with bicarbonate -- Whitening with bleach -- Using 
       ammonia in many ways -- Killing pests with borax -- 
       Soothing babies with talc -- Cleaning with lye -- 
       Scratching stainless steel -- Wrapping it up with aluminum
       foil -- Glossary -- Index. 
520    Book Description: The easy way to get a grip on inorganic 
       chemistry. Inorganic chemistry can be an intimidating 
       subject, but it doesn't have to be! Whether you're 
       currently enrolled in an inorganic chemistry class or you 
       have a background in chemistry and want to expand your 
       knowledge, Inorganic Chemistry For Dummies is the 
       approachable, hands-on guide you can trust for fast, easy 
       learning. Inorganic Chemistry For Dummies features a 
       thorough introduction to the study of the synthesis and 
       behavior of inorganic and organometallic compounds. In 
       plain English, it explains the principles of inorganic 
       chemistry and includes worked-out problems to enhance your
       understanding of the key theories and concepts of the 
       field. Presents information in an effective and 
       straightforward manner; - Covers topics you'll encounter 
       in a typical inorganic chemistry course; - Provides plain-
       English explanations of complicated concepts. If you're 
       pursuing a career as a nurse, doctor, or engineer or a 
       lifelong learner looking to make sense of this fascinating
       subject, Inorganic Chemistry For Dummies is the quick and 
       painless way to master inorganic chemistry. 
650  0 Chemistry, Inorganic. 
650  0 Chemistry, Inorganic|vPopular works. 
650  7 Chemistry, Inorganic.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00853488 
650  7 Anorganische Chemie|2gnd|0(DE-601)106394347 
650  7 Oorganisk kemi.|2sao 
655  7 Popular works.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01423846 
700 1  Orbaek, Alvin W.,|eauthor. 
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