Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry 5th Edition by Geoff Rayner-Canham and Tina Overton introduces descriptive inorganic chemistry in much less mathematical way. The book uses the periodic table as basis for understanding chemical properties and uncovering relationships between elements in different groups.
This text additionally familiarizes college students with the historical background of inorganic chemistry as well as with its essential purposes (especially in regard to industrial processes and environmental issues), resulting in a comprehensive appreciation and understanding of the sphere and the function it is going to play of their fields of further study.
Pedagogy including bolded Key Terms and Key Ideas sections at the end of each chapter that summarize the main concepts college students should remember. End-of-chapter overview questions have students evaluate and distinction properties of various. Beyond the Basics problems requiring critical thinking, have been added at the ends of chapters, to assist professors make their courses more difficult and less memory based.
Element Reaction Flow-Charts at the end of each descriptive chapter, help students recall the large number and wide variety of chemical reactions and see how they are related. Video clips of key reactions provide students with a visual image of how the reactions take place. These clips appear on the Web site and are indicated by a video icon at the appropriate place in the text. New content coverage that illustrates trends in teaching and new developments: new expanded coverage of the 4d and 5d transition metals, it moves to a whole chapter.
The Introduction and The Polyelectronic Atom (1.3) has been revised. A new sub-section Amorphous Silicon has been added to Network Covalent Substances (3.11) with new sections covering Nanometal Particles and Magnetic Properties of Metals (4.6 and 4.7). A new sub-section The Ionic-Covalent Boundary has been added to Polarization and Covalency (5.3). A new sub-section Quantum Dots has been added to Ionic Crystal Structures (5.4).
Isoelectronic Series in Covalent Compounds (9.3) has been revised and improved. The "Knight's Move" (9.8) has been revised and improved. Expanded coverage of Ionic Hydrides has been added to Hydrides (10.4). Ammonium Ion as a Pseudo-Alkali Metal Ion (11.14) has moved from Chapter 9. Revised and updated Chapter 24: The Rare Earth and Actinoid Elements. This text has a second color, making the tables and text easier to read and figures much easier to comprehend.
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