OVERVIEW

This chapter is organized into 13 sections, starting with a general description of States of Matter. As an understanding of the periodic table of the elements is helpful to an organized approach to inorganic chemistry, this subject is treated next in the Periodicity section. Periodicity is followed by the section on Nomenclature so that the references to names of inorganic compounds will be more meaningful. The shorthand of chemical reaction representation is treated in the Equations section. The numerical relationships of reacting elements is treated more fully in Stoichiometry, and electronic changes in chemical reactions are explored in Oxidation and Reduction and Electrochemistry.

Descriptive material on general classes of elements and compounds is treated in the sections on Acids and Bases and Metals and Nonmetals. This is followed by three sections that are more generally oriented toward physical chemistry. These sections are Equilibrium, Solutions, and Kinetics. The final section is Organic Chemistry, since the numerous and diverse organic chemical species are better introduced separately, and they are often treated as a separate phase of chemical knowledge. The selection of 13 chemistry sections for this chapter follows the 13 chemical subdivisions covered in the NCEES Sample Examination. The subdivisions have been reordered here to give a more logical flow to the subject matter.

The Periodic Chart of the Elements on pages 14-8 and 14-9 has been reprinted, with permission, from a commercial chemical catalogue and gives four alternate methods of numbering the groups of the periodic...