An Introduction to Chemical Reactions

In Chapter 5, you will find out about a chemical change that will dissolve that solid, and a similar change that dissolves the enamel on your teeth. Chapter 5 will also show you how fluoride in your toothpaste makes a minor chemical change in your mouth that can help fight cavities. 

Chemical changes, like the ones mentioned above, are described with chemical equations. This chapter begins . i 

The presentation of information in this chapter assumes that you can already perform the tasks listed below. You can test your readiness to proceed by answering the Review Questions at the end of the chapter. This might also be a good time to read the Chapter Objectives, which precede the Review Questions. 

Predict whether a bond between two atoms of different elements would be a covalent bond or an ionic bond. (Section 3.2) 

Convert between the names and formulas for alcohols, binary covalent compounds, and ionic compounds. (Sections 3.3-3.5) 

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Hill, CG, An Introduction to Chemical Engineering Kinetics and Reactor Design, Wiley, New York, NY, 1977. Holland, CD, RG Anthony, Fundamentals of Chemical Reaction Engineering, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1989. 

If a feed of pure methylacetoxypropionate enters at 5 atm and at a flow rate of 0.193 ft7s, what length of pipe with a cross-sectional area of 0.0388 ft is necessary for the reaction to achieve 90 percent conversion (from C. G. Hill, An Introduction to Chemical Engineering Kinetics Reactor Design, Wiley, 1977, pp. 266-267) ... 

The emphasis in Part 1 has been on an introduction to chemical kinetics and the analysis of reaction mechanism. A main theme has been to describe how experimental measurements of reaction rates, both as a function of concentration and temperature, can provide information on the mechanisms of chemical reactions. The coverage has been wide-ranging from fundamental well-established concepts to leading-edge research in femtochemistry. 

Part 1 Chemical Kinetics provides an Introduction to chemical kinetics and the analysis of reaction mechanism. The coverage is wide-ranging from basic, well-established concepts to leading-edge research In femtochemistry. The Kinetics Toolkit on the CD-ROM Is a graph-plotting application that Is specifically designed for the manipulation and analysis of kinetic data and Its use Is built Into many of the examples, questions and exercises that appear in the text. 

Earlier treatment of reactions in aqueous solution a number of our users and non-user reviewers told us that they wanted students to learn about this topic before stoichiometry. Chapter 9 addresses this request. We now have a two-chapter treatment of chemical reactivity with a qualitative emphasis, preceding the quantitative chapter on stoichiometry. Chapter 8 provides an introduction to chemical reactivity, with an emphasis on writing and balancing chemical equations and recognizing reaction types based on the nature of the equation. After students have become confident with the fundamentals, we then increase the level of sophistication of our presentation on chemical change by introducing solutions of ionic compounds and net ionic equations. 

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