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Towards an Open Anthology of Poetry
Towards an Open Anthology of Poetry features poets talking about their work, poems by topic, terms to use when teaching poetry, and poems to use for close reading.
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Clackamas Community College: Alkenes
Clackamas Community College provides a great resource on alkenes. This site teaches you about the nomenclature and structure of alkenes. It also discusses the two types of isomers alkenes can form and addition reactions.
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Clackamas Community College: Citric Acid Cycle
This is a great site on the citric acid (Krebs) cycle. Each step of the cycle is written in easy-to-understand language, accompanied with diagrams.
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Clackamas Community College: Amides
A nice website for information on amides. Discusses how they are formed, their structure, the guidelines for naming them (along with examples and practice problems), and the kinds of reactions that amides undergo.
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Clackamas Community College: Polyatomic Ions
Clackamas Community College provides a great explanation of how polyatomic ions form. This page uses Lewis dot notation to explain polyatomics, and several practice problems are provided.
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Clackamas Community College:valence Electrons
Introduction to the concept of valence electrons that relates the idea to periodic properties and electron configurations.
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Clackamas Community College: Ionization Energy
Detailed explanation of ionization energy with charts. Also gives practice problems with explanation of the answers.
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Clackamas Community College: Molecular Formulas
Discussion of molecular formula and how to determine it from empirical formula. Practice problems are available.
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Clackamas Community College: Empirical Formulas
This site presents as explanation for calculating empirical formulas from composition data. Numerous examples are given, along with practice problems.
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Clackamas Community College: Neutralization
Explains neutralization, and includes some sample problems about predicting products of such reactions.
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Clackamas Community College: Distinction Between Chemical and Physical Change
Explains the difference between chemical and physical changes.
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Clackamas Community College: Ionic Compounds
This site on ionic compounds looks at why they form networks and why they are compounds. There is also a section on determining formulas for ionic compounds with several examples provided.
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Clackamas Community College: Electronegativity
A good discussion of electronegativity and its effects on bond polarity and bond type.
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Clackamas Community College: Heat of Solution
Simple description and demonstration to illustrate the concept of Heat of solution!
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Clackamas Community College: Single Replacement Reactions
A very useful site that includes examples of replacement reactions as well as exercises for practicing balancing replacement reactions.
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Clackamas Community College: Amphoterism
Amphoterism is explained and specific examples are given at this site. Includes an explanation of the self-ionization of water and the reaction of some metal hydroxides.
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Clackamas Community College: Boiling Point Elevation
Explanation of boiling point elevation, and discussion of its application to real situations.
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Clackamas Community College: Colligative Properties
Simple summary of colligative properties.
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Clackamas Community College: Alkynes
On this page from Clackamas Community College, the nomencalture, structure, and chemical reactions of alkynes are discussed.
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Clackamas Community College: Predicting Formulas
Using Lewis diagrams for predicting the formulas of compounds, with links to examples and practice problems.
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Clackamas Community College: Self Ionization of Water
A short explanation of how water ionizes by itself.
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Clackamas Community College: Structural Formulas
This site from the Clackamas Community College has information on the importance of structural formulas for organic compounds, with examples. Includes links to more information.
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Clackamas Community College: Chemical Bonding: Metals and Nonmetals
A chart of the periodic table of elements, including showing the nonmetal group.
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Clackamas Community College: Chemical Groups
This site, which is provided for by the Clackamas Community College, gives a basic explanation of Chemical Grouping, including the Boron group.