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Michael Blaber's General Chemistry 1: A Virtual Textbook contains lectures on the following:
- 1.1 Introduction to Matter
- 1.2 Elements and Compounds
- 2.1 The Atomic Theory of Matter
- 2.2 The Discovery of Atomic Structure
- 2.3 Modern View of Atomic Structure
- 2.4 The Periodic Table
- 2.5 Molecules and Ions
- 2.6 Naming of Inorganic Compounds
- 3.1 Chemical Equations
- 3.2 Patterns of Chemical Reactivity
- 3.3 Atomic and Molecular Weights
- 3.4 The Mole
- 3.5 Empirical Formulas from Analyses
- 3.6 Quantitative Information from Balanced Equations
- 3.7 Limiting Reactants
- 4.1 Solution Composition
- 4.2 Solution Stoichiometry
- 5.1 The Nature of Energy
- 5.2 not available
- 5.3 Heat and Enthalphy Changes
- 5.4 not available
- 5.5 Calorimetry
- 5.6 Hess' Law
- 5.7 Enthalpies of Formation
- 5.8 Food and Fuels
- 6.1 The Wave
- 6.2 Quantum Effects and Photons
- 6.3 Bohr's Model of the Hydrogen Atom
- 6.4 The Dual Nature of the Electron
- 6.5 Quantum Mechanics and Atomic Orbitals
- 6.6 Represenations of Orbitals
- 6.7 Orbitals in Many-electron Atoms
- 6.8 Electron Configurations
- 6.9 Electron Configurations and the Periodic Table
- 7.1 Development of the Periodic Table
- 7.2 Electron Shells in Atoms
- 7.3 Sizes of Atoms
- 7.4 Ionization Affinities
- 7.5 Electronic Affinities
- 7.6 Metals, Nonmetals and Metalloids
- 7.7 Group Trends: Active Metals
- 7.8 Group Trends: Selected Nonmetals
- 8.1 Lewis Symbols and the Octet Rule
- 8.2 Ionic Bonding
- 8.3 Sizes of Ions
- 8.4 Covalent Bonding
- 8.5 Bond Polarity
- 8.6 Drawing Lewis Structures
- 8.7 Resonance Structures
- 8.8 Exceptions to the Octet Rule
- 8.9 Strengths of Covalent Bonds
- 8.10 Oxidation Numbers
- 9.1 Molecular Geometries
- 9.2 Polarity of Molecules
- 9.3 Covalent Bonding and Orbital Overlap
- 9.4 Hybrid Orbitals
- 9.5 Multiple Bonds
- 10.1 Characteristics of Gases
- 10.2 Pressure
- 10.3 The Gas Law
- 10.4 The Ideal Gas Equation
- 10.5 Molar Mass and Gas Density
- 10.6 Gas Mixtures and Partial Pressures
- 10.7 Volumes of Gases in Chemical Reactions
- 10.8 Kinetic-molecular Theory
- 10.9 Molecular Effusion and Diffusion
- 10.10 Deviation from Ideal Behavior
- 11.1 The Kinetic-molecular Description of Liquids and Solids
- 11.2 Intermolecular Forces
- 11.3 Properties of Liquids: Viscosity and Surface Tension
- 11.4 Changes of State
- 11.5 Vapor Pressure
- 11.6 Phase Diagrams
- 11.7 Structures of Solids
- 11.8 Bonding in Solids
CHEM 101 by Dr. James A. Plambeck at the University of Alberta (Canada)
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General, Organic, and Biochemistry, by James K. Hardy

The chemistry program at Cary Academy by W. Gray Rushin includes "Chemical Carousel: A trip around the carbon cycle"

Chemistry Home includes over 250 links of detailed information.

Audrey Sanders' Chemistry Resources- 32 modules of detailed information

General Chemistry Home Companion-

Life of the World Famous Chemists

Robert Boyle (1627-1691)
Isaac Newton (1643 - 1727)
Joseph Priestly (1733 - 1804)
Antanie Lavoisier (1743 - 1794)
John Dalton (1766 - 1844)
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768 - 1830)
Amadeo Avogadro (1776 - 1856)
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777 - 1855)
George Gabriel Stokes (1819 - 1903)
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (1821 - 1894)
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (1824 - 1887)
Johann Jakob Balmer (1825 - 1898)
James Clerk Maxwell (1831 - 1879)
Josef Stefan (1835 - 1893)
Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839 - 1903)
John William Strutt Lord Rayleigh (1842 - 1919)
Ludwig Boltzmann (1844 - 1906)
J. J. Thomson (1856 - 1940)
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (1858 - 1947)
Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien (1864 - 1928)
Earest Rutherford (1871 - 1937)
Jones Jakob Berzelius (1779 - 1848)
Niels Henrik David Bohr (1885 - 1962) •
Svante Arrhenius (1859 - 1927) •
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) •
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834 - 1907)
Erwin Schrodinger (1887 - 1961)
Wallace H. Carothers (1896 - 1937)
Alfred Werner
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (1902 - 1984)

WEB MAGAZINES

The links pages of Chaos magazine list several good magazines.

EDUCATION LINKS

50 Goals for U.S. Public School Education-

GENERAL LINKS

African-Americans in the Sciences- To assist students looking for contemporary scientists to include in their answer to the question "Name your ten favorite chemists" to be turned in at the end of second semester
IBM Patent Server- Practical information related to a product can sometimes be found in a patent. Patents are acceptable references for technical publications.

PERSONAL FAVORITES--MISCELLANEOUS

Diario de a Borde- pages in Spanish about Star Trek Voyager

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