Chemistry - Timberlake, Karen (New York Harper & Row, 1988)
Table of Contents: Preface -- To the Student -- 1. Measurement in the Health Sciences -- 2. Atoms and Elements -- 3. Compounds and Their Bonds -- 4. Chemical Quantities and Equations -- 5. Nuclear Radiation -- 6. Energy and the States of Matter -- 7. Gases -- 8. Solutions: Nature of Solute and Solvent -- 9. Concentrations and Properties of Solutions -- 10. Acids and Bases -- 11. Alkanes: An Introduction to a Study of Organic Compounds -- 12. Alkenes, Alkynes, Aromatics, Alcohols, and Ethers -- 13. Aldehydes, Ketones, Carboxylic Acids, and Esters -- 14. Nitrogen-Containing Organic Compounds: Amines and Amides -- 15. Carbohydrates -- 16. Lipids -- 17. Proteins -- 18. Enzymes and Vitamins and the Digestion of Foodstuffs -- 19. Metabolism: Energy Production in the Living Cell -- 20. Chemistry of Heredity: DNA and RNA and Hormonal Action -- Appendix A. Math and the Calculator -- Appendix B. Exponential Notation -- Appendix C. Answers to Problems -- Index.
Includes index.
Keywords: Chemistry