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Chemistry: The Central Science

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I have the sixth edition of this text and find it very helpful in my Chemistry course in college. I have to say that the THREE one-star reviews of this text were given by a single person apparently trying to get the attention of Amazon to get a teacher's edition of a later version.

This is a disservice to the author and should not be tolerated by Amazon. All the other editions have multiple stars. Don't we have any other way to query Amazon?

Stan Hopkins

Well, folks, I just finished 1 year of chemistry based upon this book. It is a fine book, although the study questions occasionally have answers which are a bit vague. This is definitely NOT a book for anybody in high school, and I think that the authors often forget that, even though they themselves are PhD's, their target audience has no degree. Although this book takes a look at nearly every aspect of inorganic chemistry, I often felt a bit cheated, because it only explored certain things so far. Frequently, an explanation would go further and further in-depth, only to end with the statement, "To explain this topic more deeply is beyond the scope of this text." Give us the knowledge, already!

Overall, the book is well-done and relatively easy to follow. The style of writing, though, is a bit over the heads of most first-year chemistry students.

So college students did your professors recommend this book as your General Chemistry text for college or high school? Well, then after flipping through chapters and more endless chapters, I realized that the book was great to do the work out problems at the end of the chapter however some chapters turned out to be a mess for the authors! Overall the book is very enjoyable and great for 1 year college chemistry or AP chemistry in high school.