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Pages listed below contain off the mark cartoons by Mark Parisi, MarkParisi@aol.com, 7/12/00, E-mail message:

Test Your Ability section, Chapter 1.3 page, Chapter 2 page, Chapter 3 page, Exercises section, Research Center page

Simulation section -

"Molecule movement I and II", and "Electron Cloud Study" are taught to us by Den Ivanov (one of our coach), cleoaq@onego.ru

The images used to create many of the 3D molecular animations are taken from http://www.recipnet.indiana.edu/common/common.html, huffman@indiana.edu, 7/29/00, Email message.

Chapter 2.1page - Conversion table from Zumdahl/Intro. Chemistry/2nd Edition/© 1993 Houghton Mifflin Company, 4/27/00, mail.

Glossary page - taken from Zumdahl/Intro. Chemistry/2nd Edition/© 1993 Houghton Mifflin Company, 4/27/00, mail.

Chapter 4.1 page - Polyatomic Ions table from Zumdahl/Intro. Chemistry/2nd Edition/© 1993 Houghton Mifflin Company, 4/27/00, mail.

Experiments page - Fingertip smoke, invisible smoke, volcano, and fake glass are contributed by http://freeweb.pdq.net/headstrong/default.htm © 1998-2000 Brian Carusella, brianc@pdq.net, 7/6/00, E-mail message.

Exercises and Answers section -

All questions and answers are selected from Zumdahl/Intro. Chemistry/2nd Edition/© 1993 Houghton Mifflin Company.

Chemo Community - powered by Phorum 3.1.1 Copyright (c) 2000 The Phorum Development Team. All rights reserved.

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Chapter 1.2 - image of chemicals, from Richard Megna/Fundamental Photographs

Chapter3.1 - image of gallium, from Zumdahl/Intro. Chemistry/2nd Edition/© 1993 Houghton Mifflin Company.

Home pages, Discovering Chemistry, Chapter 6 - image of Dmitri Mendeleev, from Library of Congress

Home pages, Discovering Chemistry -

image of metals, from Richard Megna/Fundamental Photographs
image of the Sun, from NASA

References

Electronic Sources

"Chemistry." Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia 99. Microsoft Corporation, 1993-1998.

All translations are made possible through Lycos Translation, http://translate.lycos.com

Printed Materials

Part of a Book

Brown, LeMay, Bursten. Chemistry - The Central Science, Sixth Edition. Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1994. pp. 2-26, pp. 33-48.

Zumdahl. Intorductory Chemistry, Second Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993. pp. 8-51, pp. 92-155, pp. 221-259.

Entire Book

Windholz, Martha. The Merck Index, Tenth Edition. Merck & Co., Inc. 1983.