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Nuffield Advanced Chemistry (Fourth Edition): Students' Book

Like its predecessors, the Students' Book of the Fourth Edition of Nuffield Advanced Chemistry contained instructions for practical work, interpretations of the experiments, background reading, and questions to help students develop their understanding of chemical ideas.

All topics had several features in common that are used repeatedly during the course to help students with their learning:

*Instructions for experiments

*Guidance on note taking

*Questions

*Study tasks

*Comments

*Suggestions for activities to develop key skills

*Topic reviews

*Review and examination questions

*Background information and background reading

Contents

Topic 1: Metal compounds: an introduction to inorganic chemistry

Topic 2: Alcohols: an introduction to organic chemistry

Topic 3: The Periodic Table and atomic structure

Topic 4: Acid-base reactions and the alkaline earth elements

Topic 5: Energy change and reactions

Topic 6: Redox reactions and the halogens

Topic 7: Covalency and bond-breaking

Topic 8: Organic chemistry: hydrocarbons

Topic 9: Intermolecular forces

Topic 10: Organic chemistry: halogenoalkanes

Topic 11: How fast? Rates of reaction

Topic 12: Arenes: benzene and phenol

Topic 13: Entropy

Topic 14: How far? Reversible reactions

Topic 15: Oxidation products of alcohols

​ Topic 16: The Born-Haber cycle, structure and bonding

Topic 17: Redox equilibria

Topic 18: Natural and synthetic polymers

Topic 19: The transition elements

Topic 20: Organic synthesis

Topic 21: Instrumental methods

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