PART ONE CHEMISTRY AND SOCIETY Unit 1 The Roots of Chemistry Unit 2 Hot Springs and Fool’s Gold Unit 3 Fullerene Frinzy Unit 4 Drinding Water Qualitr and Health Unit 5 Preface PART TWO THE FUDAMENTALS OF CHEMISTRY Unit 6 The Periodic Table Unit 7 Acids,Bases and Salts Unit 8 Chemical Bonds Unit 9 Chemical Kinetics:Basic Principles Unit 10 Nomenclature of Hydrocarbons Unit 11 Derivatives of Carboxylic Acids PART THREE ANALYTICAL TECHNOLOGY FOR SAMPLE Unit 12 Vibrational Spectrum Unit 13 Electronic Absorption Spectroscopies Unit 14 The Chemical Shift Unit 15 Mass Spectrometry(MS) Unit 16 Review of X-ray Diffracyeon PART FOUR Unit OPERATION Unit 17 Crystallisation Unit 18 Distillation Unit 19 Solvent Extraction Unit 20 Oxidation-Reduction Methods Unit 21 Reactor Types PART FIVE FINE CHEMICALS AND PROCESS Unit 22 Cosmetics Introduction Unit 23 Current Developments in Foods and Food Processing Unit 24 Catalysis Unit 25 Fermintation Processes Prefix and Suffix Vocabulary