The Extraordinary Chemistry Of Ordinary Things, Study Guide

The Extraordinary Chemistry Of Ordinary Things, Study Guide

Work more effectively and gauge your progress as you go along! ThisStudy Guide that is designed to accompany Snyder?sThe Extraordinary Chemistry of Ordinary Things, 4 Edition, is an invaluable tool for the student, containing unusual, illustrative scenarios as well as the more traditional study-guide features, such as chapter overviews and solutions to the in-text questions. Also included are the worked-out solutions to the problems in the text along with additional exercises of the same nature and level of difficulty.Snyder?s The Extraordinary Chemistry of Ordinary Things, 4 Edition is known in the market for its strong consumer emphasis in which it takes a unique approach by using consumer products to illustrate chemical principles. Each area - chemistry and consumerism - reinforces the other in examinations of gasoline and petroleum, detergents, foods and food additives, plastics, and more.About the AuthorAnn Ratcliffe Received the A.B. degree in chemistry from Randolph-Macon Woman's College and the Master of Arts in Teaching from Duke University. She taught high school chemistry in both public and private schools, including four years at the American Community School in Beirut, Lebanon. At Oklahoma State University she coordinated the general chemistry teaching laboratories and taught in the general chemistry program. Currently she is Program Coordinator for the Center for Precollegiate Studies and Outreach at the University of Northern Colorado. She is the author ofChemistry: The Experience, a Lab manual for non-science majors which employs the guided inquiry method of learning (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1993).David F. Dever recieved his bachelor's degree at Spring Hill College, Master's degree from The Florida State University, and was a graduate school colleague of Carl H. Snyder ( the author of The Extraordinary Chemistry of Ordinary Things) while they were both earning their PhDs at The Ohio state University in the late fifties. He worked at the Los Alamos Scientific laboratory as a research fellow, the U.S. Bureau of Mines as a project leader in air-pollution research, and helped start an engineering college on the Persian Gulf for the Saudi Arab Government. He taught 34 years at Macon State College and is now retired.