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GENERAL CHEMISTRY is better than ever with this eleventh edition. It includes essential updates—such as modern artwork, higher integration with OWLv2, revised end-of-chapter questions, added Capstone Problems, narrative revisions, and more—to help you succeed in your chemistry course.
New Capstone Problems have been added to a number of chapters.
New Capstone Problems have been added to a number of chapters.
Throughout the text, the authors adopted IUPAC periodic table conventions.
Essays have been added, updated, and revised to reflect current understanding of a variety of relevant topics. Several “A Chemist Looks At” essays, including “Carbon Dioxide Gas and the Greenhouse Effect,” “Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR),” “Acid Rain,” “Limestone Caves,” and “Superconductivity”, were updated. New essays on “The Discovery of New Elements” and “Lithium-Ion Batteries” were added.
The discussion of electrostatic potential maps and the application of formal charge were improved.
New material was added explaining the modern view of bonding in central atoms having more than eight valence electrons.