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# General Chemistry (Dover Books on Chemistry)

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Review: An exemplary supplement to any general chemistry class (especially those that are calculus-based) - I am currently a chemistry student in an honors general chemistry course at an Ivy League university, and I can say with certitude that this is an excellent resource for any chemistry student (with a decent knowledge of calculus), especially considering the price. I don't think it best to use as a default textbook for a modern general chemistry course (Oxtoby and Atkins are both very good; I especially like Atkins because I find the explanations superior to Oxtoby, though if you want the more advanced text you should go with Oxtoby, but be aware that it incorporates a lot of physics in its explanations) but as a supplementary resource it is wonderful. Stylistically, it is very easy to read and everything is explained very clearly. You can tell Pauling's audience was his students. I have a great deal of interest in chemistry and I appreciate the history that it provides on all of the experiments and discoveries, which I find to be lacking in most modern sources, like the aforementioned Oxtoby and Atkins. It is exceptional in that it covers so many diverse topics, which is wonderful because general chemistry is so broad, and in particular has a lot of material on biochemistry and quantum chemistry, which makes a lot of sense considering Pauling's achievements in those fields. Its age does show in the some of the notation. For instance, it seems to defer to using formal rather than molar concentrations, which I had never seen previously (they are however, essentially the same thing; formal simply ignores the species in solution and only looks at the initial number of moles of species present, while molar takes into account species present). I just wish there were a solutions manual somewhere.
Review: Worth 10 times the money - As a physicist-educator and life-long learner, I absolutely loved this book. It is so incredibly comprehensive and through, covering all the phenomena of inorganic chemistry from the ground up, taking care to elucidate the physics behind them. The figures and diagrams are focused, relevant and explicit. It is easy to find whatever topic I am interested in. And this book cost next to nothing! Buy it - the Kindle edition - and read it!

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #223,240 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #64 in Pathology Clinical Chemistry (Books) #142 in Chemistry (Books) #164 in General Chemistry |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 348 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ An exemplary supplement to any general chemistry class (especially those that are calculus-based)
*by A***R on October 13, 2015*

I am currently a chemistry student in an honors general chemistry course at an Ivy League university, and I can say with certitude that this is an excellent resource for any chemistry student (with a decent knowledge of calculus), especially considering the price. I don't think it best to use as a default textbook for a modern general chemistry course (Oxtoby and Atkins are both very good; I especially like Atkins because I find the explanations superior to Oxtoby, though if you want the more advanced text you should go with Oxtoby, but be aware that it incorporates a lot of physics in its explanations) but as a supplementary resource it is wonderful. Stylistically, it is very easy to read and everything is explained very clearly. You can tell Pauling's audience was his students. I have a great deal of interest in chemistry and I appreciate the history that it provides on all of the experiments and discoveries, which I find to be lacking in most modern sources, like the aforementioned Oxtoby and Atkins. It is exceptional in that it covers so many diverse topics, which is wonderful because general chemistry is so broad, and in particular has a lot of material on biochemistry and quantum chemistry, which makes a lot of sense considering Pauling's achievements in those fields. Its age does show in the some of the notation. For instance, it seems to defer to using formal rather than molar concentrations, which I had never seen previously (they are however, essentially the same thing; formal simply ignores the species in solution and only looks at the initial number of moles of species present, while molar takes into account species present). I just wish there were a solutions manual somewhere.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Worth 10 times the money
*by A***N on January 14, 2024*

As a physicist-educator and life-long learner, I absolutely loved this book. It is so incredibly comprehensive and through, covering all the phenomena of inorganic chemistry from the ground up, taking care to elucidate the physics behind them. The figures and diagrams are focused, relevant and explicit. It is easy to find whatever topic I am interested in. And this book cost next to nothing! Buy it - the Kindle edition - and read it!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ An affordable version of a classic
*by C***R on May 22, 2021*

Perhaps not how chemistry is taught nowadays, but the book is still full of insights, and it shows one how instrumental Pauling was in changing the way chemistry was taught and how chemistry textbooks would come to be written. It’s positioned at the cusp of when a wide collection of chemical reactions and behavior would transition from parallel observations based organized by the groups of the periodic table, to an understanding of periodic behavior as a consequence of the underlying orbitals and molecular structure as revealed experimentally by crystallography and theoretically by quantum mechanics. All textbooks since show the overtones, often simplified and schematized, from this seminal work. A classic and still worth reading today.

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