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This book is well-intended, covering a fairly wide array of concepts. However, open the book from either the front or back, and you will find nice large, empty inside front and back covers! This is the first chemistry/physics/engineering text I've encountered with no equations, constants and conversions printed immediately inside the covers(or anywhere else, for that matter)! This one fact makes the book difficult and time-consuming to use for completing homework assignments and learning new concepts. A near total lack of diagrams, charts or graphic representation of concepts is also disappointing.
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My prof. utilized this text for the first time last semester, and assumed it would be a good text. My background was Chem I, Chem II, Organic Chem, and Quantitative Analysis. I and a classmate with a similar background both found this text to be ineffective and inefficient. For example, one must page to Chapter 5 before finding a periodic table; every chemistry text I've seen thus far includes one on the opening pages. The treatment of atomic orbital energies was the worst I've ever seen - what introductory texts handle with a few well-chosen diagrams was written out into a page of excruciating text (p 146-147). Equations were given, but it was not always readily clear what each symbol stood for; examples were nearly non-existant. I was so excited about this course and I'm just grateful that the instructor was of much higher quality than the text.
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this is a required textbook for a class.
it was less expensive here than the campus bookstore. the book is like most textbooks, informative. all aspects of the purchase transaction were satisfactory.
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Geochemistry is concerned with the chemical processes responsible for the distribution of elements in the solid earth, its oceans, and the atmosphere and how they have changed as a function of time. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Earth Planet, John Wiley, North America, Oxford University Press, Prentice Hall, United States, Environmental Chemistry, Gulf Coast, Blackwell Scientific, Brazoria County, Halley Bay, Pand Tof, Principles of Geochemistry, South Carolina, Upper Saddle River, Aquatic Chemistry, Big Bang, Cambridge University Press, Earth Sci, Englewood Cliffs, Juan de Fuca, Marine Petroleum Source Rocks, Mauna Loa Observatory, The Hydrolysis of Cations New!
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Geochemistry is concerned with the chemical processes responsible for the distribution of elements in the solid earth, its oceans, and the atmosphere and how they have changed as a function of time. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Earth Planet, John Wiley, North America, Oxford University Press, Prentice Hall, United States, Environmental Chemistry, Gulf Coast, Blackwell Scientific, Brazoria County, Halley Bay, Pand Tof, Principles of Geochemistry, South Carolina, Upper Saddle River, Aquatic Chemistry, Big Bang, Cambridge University Press, Earth Sci, Englewood Cliffs, Juan de Fuca, Marine Petroleum Source Rocks, Mauna Loa Observatory, The Hydrolysis of Cations New!
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- Introduction To Geochemistry - 3rd Edition by Konrad B. Krauskopf on 4 pages
- Environmental Chemistry by Wiley on 4 pages
- Hydrolysis of Cations by Charles F., Jr. Baes on page 220, page 253, and page 546
- Aquatic Chemistry: An Introduction Emphasizing Chemical Equilibria in Natural Waters (Environmental Science and Technology: A Wiley-Interscience Series of Texts and Monographs) by Werner Stumm on page 220, page 254, and page 465
- Principles of Geochemistry by Brian Mason on page 54, page 181, and page 182
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