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Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Metals, Insulators and Semiconductors
Acting as an overview from the General Chemistry Virtual Textbook, this site explores insulators in relation to metals and other semiconductors. Other topics include conduction band, dielectric breakdown, photoconductors, and more.
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Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Effects of Dilution on an Equilibrium
Acting as an overview from the General Chemistry Virtual Textbook, this site explores equilibrium and equilibrium constants in reference to dilution. Formulas and charts are also provided on the subject.
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Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Plotting the P H
Acting as an overview from the General Chemistry Virtual Textbook, this site acts as one in a series of slides on acid-base systems. This particular slide deals with coordinating pH graphs.
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Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Acetic Acid
Acting as an overview from the General Chemistry Virtual Textbook, this site acts as one in a series of slides on acid-base systems. This particular slide deals with constructing the plots for acetic acids and graphs.
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Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Titration Curve
Acting as an overview from the General Chemistry Virtual Textbook, this site acts as one in a series of slides on acid-base systems. This particular slide deals with the titration curve in graphing of acetic acids.
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Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Oxalic Acid
Acting as an overview from the General Chemistry Virtual Textbook, this site acts as one in a series of slides on acid-base systems. This particular slide deals with a diprotic acid, oxalic acid.
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Chem1 Virtual Textbook: The Phosphate System
Acting as an overview from the General Chemistry Virtual Textbook, this site acts as one in a series of slides on acid-base systems. This particular slide deals with phosphates and the three pKs of the phosphate system.
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Chem1 Virtual Textbook: How Thermal Energy Is Stored in Molecules
With an overview of topics related to chemical energetics, this site provides a foundation to a study of thermodynamics and thermal energy. Other topics covered include kinetic energy, translation, rotation, vibrations, density, and more.
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Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Energy Spreading
With an overview of topics related to chemical energetics, this site provides a foundation to a study of thermodynamics and information on energy spreading. Topics covered include quantum states, microstates, and energy spreading,...
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Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Effect of Temperature and Concentration on the Entropy
With an overview of topics related to chemical equilibrium, this site provides a foundation to a study of thermodynamics and entropy. The specific topic addressed is effect of temperature, volume, and concentration on the entropy.
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Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Standard Entropies of Substances
With an overview of topics related to chemical equilibrium, this site provides a foundation to a study of thermodynamics and entropy. Other topics covered include standard entropy, gases, and more.
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Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Absolute Entropies
With an overview of topics related to chemical equilibrium, this site provides a foundation to a study of thermodynamics and entropy. The subject, absolute entropies, is discussed in addition to the third law of thermodynamics, phase...
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Chem1 Virtual Textbook: The Direction of Spontaneous Change
With an overview of topics related to chemical equilibrium, this site provides a foundation to a study of thermodynamics and spontaneous change. Other topics covered include entropy, spontaneous macroscopic change, and more.
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Chem1 Virtual Textbook: The Fall of the Electron
With an overview of topics related to chemical equilibrium, this site provides a foundation to a study of thermodynamics and electrons. Included in the discussion is information on oxidation-reduction reactions.
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Chem1 Virtual Textbook: What Is Pseudoscience?
Pseudoscience studies various fields of science that make claims to be legitimate, but researchers and academics argue that pseudoscientific discoveries do not hold up to typical standards of testing and proof. Examples are the Lunar...
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Chem1 Virtual Textbook: How Molecules Take Up Thermal Energy
With an overview of topics related to chemical energetics, this site provides a foundation to a study of thermodynamics with information on thermal energy. Topics covered include heat capacity, temperature, translational motions of...
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Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Matter: Pure Substances and Mixtures
Textbook-like exposition of pure chemical substances and mixtures.
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Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Densities of Substances and Materials
As part of a larger site called "Getting started in Chemistry," this site examines various topics related to the densities of substances and materials. Included in the study are properties of solids, liquids and gases, and how density is...
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Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Physical Significance of the Wave Function
Acting as a subtopic of the General Chemistry Virtual Textbook's section on Atoms and the Periodic Table, this site discusses the wave function in relation to orbitals and continual waves.
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Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Movement of the Electron
Acting as a subtopic of the General Chemistry Virtual Textbook's section on Atoms and the Periodic Table, this site seeks to answer the question, "Why doesn't the electron fall into the nucleus?"
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Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Pressure Volume Work
With an overview of topics related to chemical energetics, this site provides a foundation to a study of thermodynamics. This section of the site focuses on the kind of work associated with chemical change, pressure-volume work.
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Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Cell Potentials and P H
As part of the General Chemistry Virtual Textbook, this site examines a variety of topics related to electrochemistry. In the examination of pH and cell potentials, this site discusses the stability of water and chlorine in water.
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Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Control of Corrosion
As part of the General Chemistry Virtual Textbook, this site examines a variety of topics related to electrochemistry. In a discussion of corrosion, this site covers topics including sacrificial coatings, cathodic protection, corrosion...
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Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Latimer Diagrams
As part of the General Chemistry Virtual Textbook, this site examines a variety of topics related to electrochemistry. This site in particular examines the Latimer diagrams, which is a means of "comparing the standard electrode...