Chemistry and the environment

Chemistry: A human activity

Atoms unique: The elements

Atoms incognito: Compounds, molecules, and ions

As sure as death and taxes: Chemical change

Give and take in chemical change: Electron and proton transfers

Chemical and nuclear energy

What if we had no carbon?

The giants assembled by man

Giant molecules in biochemistry

Enzymes, vitamins, and hormones

The H. A. Krebs energy factory

Life begets life

Food additives - or - modified natural foods

Medicines;

The chemistry of cleaning or, getting the dirt outout

The chemicals we use on ourselves-cosmetics

The chemistry of paints: Protecting what you have

Water pollution and purification

Air pollution

Four gens and a gin

Chemistry for the family car

Space chemistry

Appendix: The international system of units SI; centigrade or Celsius temperature scale; stoichiometric calculations.

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