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About the Author
John W. Hill
Hill received his Ph.D. from the University of Arkansas. As an organic chemist, he has published more than 50 papers, most of which have an educational bent. He has authored or coauthored several introductory-level chemistry textbooks, all of which have been published in multiple editions. He has also presented over 60 papers at national conferences, many relating to chemical education. He has received several awards for outstanding teaching and has long been active in the American Chemical Society, both locally and nationally. Now professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin—River Falls, Hill authored the first edition of Chemistry for Changing Times in 1972. Revising and updating this book has been a major focus of his life for four decades
Terry W. McCreary
McCreary received his B.S. from St. Francis University, his M.S. from the University of Georgia, and his Ph.D. from Virginia Tech. He has taught chemistry at Murray State University since 1988, and was presented with the Regents Excellence in Teaching Award in 2008. He is a member of the American Chemical Society and the Kentucky Academy of Science and has served as technical editor for the Journal of Pyrotechnics. In his spare time, he designs, builds, and flies rockets with the Tripoli Rocketry Association; he was elected president of the association in 2010. McCreary is the author of several laboratory manuals; General Chemistry with John Hill, Ralph Petrucci, and Scott Perry; and Experimental Composite Propellant, a fundamental treatise on the preparation and properties of solid rocket propellant
Table of Contents
1 Chemistry
2 Atoms
3 Atomic Structure
4 Chemical Bonds
5 Chemical Accounting
6 Gases, Liquids, Solids . . . and Intermolecular Forces
7 Acids and Bases
8 Oxidation and Reduction
9 Organic Chemistry
10 Polymers
11 Nuclear Chemistry
12 Chemistry of Earth
13 Air
14 Water
15 Energy
16 Biochemistry
17 Food
18 Drugs
19 Fitness and Health
20 Chemistry Down on the Farm . . . and in the Garden and on the Lawn
21 Household Chemicals
22 Poisons