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Book SynopsisMake chemistry memorable: choose from fifty-nine collaborative activities that will make your general chemistry lecture, recitation, homework, or lab more relevant, interactive, and collaborative.
Table of ContentsActivity 1: What Am I Eating?
Activity 2: How Do We Convert between the Units Used in Environmental Science?
Activity 3: How Does Oxygen Get to My Muscles?
Activity 4: Laboratory: How Can We Separate Plastics for Recycling?
Activity 5: What Gives Fireworks Their Brilliance?
Activity 6: What Are Sources and Sinks of Greenhouse Gases?
Activity 7: How Is Acid Rain Formed?
Activity 8: What Are Your Personal Contributions to Carbon Dioxide Emissions?
Activity 9: How Much Do Your Daily Activities Contribute to Greenhouse Gas Concentrations?
Activity 10: How Much Product Will My Reaction Yield?
Activity 11: What Is in My Blood?
Activity 12: How Can a Standard Curve Be Used to Monitor Phosphate in the Environment?
Activity 13: Laboratory: How Can We Group Household Chemicals Using Probes?
Activity 14: What Can Titration Tell Me about My Food?
Activity 15: What Reduction–Oxidation Reactions Happen in Nature?
Activity 16: How Is Copper Processed?
Activity 17: How Much Heat Is Released upon Fuel Combustion?
Activity 18: Laboratory: How Much Energy Is in My Food?
Activity 19: How Can I Calculate the Energy Content of Fuels?
Activity 20: How Does an Automobile Engine Convert Heat to Work?
Activity 21: Laboratory: How Do Power Plants and Automobile Emissions Affect Lakes?
Activity 22: What Is the Mass of Air?
Activity 23: How Do the Gas Laws Affect My Outdoor Experience?
Activity 24: How Can We Predict the Light Produced by Hot Objects?
Activity 25: Can We Identify Unknown Plastics Using Infrared Spectroscopy?
Activity 26: What Is a Greenhouse Gas?
Activity 27: Laboratory: Why Do We Need Ozone?
Activity 28: What Are the Shapes of the Greenhouse Gas Molecules?
Activity 29: What Are the Shapes of Molecules in Paper and Plastic Bags?
Activity 30: From Pesticides to Vitamins: Water Soluble or Fat Soluble?
Activity 31: What Is the Difference between a Fat and an Oil?
Activity 32: Laboratory: How Can We Make Oil and Water Mix?
Activity 33: How Can We Identify Metals?
Activity 34: How Would You Design an Incandescent (Blackbody-Emitting) Bulb?
Activity 35: How Does the Electrical Resistance of a Material Depend on Its Shape and Temperature?
Activity 36: How Do Chemists Represent Large Molecules Found in Foods and Plastics?
Activity 37: What Functional Groups Are in Foods?
Activity 38: How Are Fats Formed?
Activity 39: How Are Nylon and Polyester Formed?
Activity 40: How Do Hot and Cold Packs Work?
Activity 41: How Do Automobile Emissions Contribute to Air Pollution?
Activity 42: Which Reactions Are Most Responsible for the Antarctic Ozone Hole?
Activity 43: Why Is More Ozone Produced in the Stratosphere?
Activity 44: Why Is Chlorine an Efficient Ozone Destroyer?
Activity 45: What Happens to the Carbon Dioxide We Emit?
Activity 46: How Do Chemical Systems Respond to Stress?
Activity 47: How Does Engine Temperature Affect CO and NOx Production?
Activity 48: Laboratory: How Can Used Fryer Oil Be Turned into Fuel?
Activity 49: What Is the pH of Household Chemicals?
Activity 50: What Chemicals Contribute to the Natural Acidity of Rainwater?
Activity 51: What Are the Buffer Systems in Your Body that Keep You Alive?
Activity 52: Laboratory: How Does Cation Exchange Work?
Activity 53: What Controls the Properties of Elements?
Activity 54: What Are the Building Blocks of Life?
Activity 55: How Does a Nuclear Reactor Work?
Activity 56: When Did You Live?
Activity 57: What Do the Data Tell Us about Climate Change?
Activity 58: Laboratory: How Is Copper Extracted from Ore?
Activity 59: Laboratory: How Is Aqueous Copper Purified and Concentrated?
