Description
Book SynopsisCatering to the needs of first and second semester undergraduate courses on engineering chemistry, this book discusses new topics like nuclear fuels, defluoridation of water, waste water management, breakpoint chlorination, semiconductors, superconductors and magnetic materials, and thermodynamic formulation of the transition state theory.
Table of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgements; 1. Fuels; 2. Water; 3. Corrosion; 4. Phase rule; 5. Engineering materials; 6. Polymers; 7. Lubricants; 8. Periodic properties; 9. Acid base, oxidation reduction and intermolecular forces; 10. Structure and bonding; 11. Solid state; 12. Liquid crystals; 13. Chemical kinetics; 14. Surface chemistry; 15. Thermodynamics; 16. Electrochemistry; 17. Spectroscopy; 18. Photochemistry; 19. Fundamentals of organic chemistry; 20. Coordination compounds; 21. Organometallic compounds; 22. Green chemistry; 23. Nanochemistry; 24. Basics of environment science; 25. Chemical aspects of biotechnology; 26. Analytical techniques in chemistry; 27. Chemistry of carbon and hydrogen; References; Index.
