Includes index.

Chemists and chemistry -- Atoms, molecules, and ions -- Stoichiometry -- Types of chemical reactions and solution stoichiometry -- Gases -- Chemical equilibrium -- Acids and bases -- Applications of aqueous equilibria -- Energy, enthalpy and thermochemistry -- Spontaneity, entropy and free energy -- Electrochemistry -- Quantum mechanics and atomic theory -- Bonding: general concepts -- Covalent bonding: orbitals -- Chemical kinetics -- Liquids and solids -- Properties of solutions -- Representative elements: Groups 1A through 4A; Groups 5A through 8A -- Transition metals and coordination chemistry -- The nucleus: a chemist's view -- Organic and biochemical molecules -- Appendices.