Chemistry: Beyond the Classroom

Relegate to the appendices or Chemistry Beyond the Classroom essays topics ordinarily... 

Qualitative analysis. This is summarized in a couple of pages in an essay in Chapter 16 in the Chemistry Beyond the Classroom section. An extended discussion of the qual scheme and the chemistry behind it belongs in a lab manual, not a textbook. 

Inviting contributing authors to write essays about their current or recent research. There are four new essays for the end-of-chapter sections called Chemistry Beyond the Classroom. ... 

Each chapter contains a Chemistry Beyond the Classroom feature. It is a self-contained essay that illustrates a current example either of chemistry in use in the world or an area of chemical research. It does not intrude into the explanation of the concepts, so it won t distract you. But we promise that those essays—if you read them—will make you more scientifically literate. 

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