Applications and Chemical Encounters
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1 6 Hydrogen and oxygen in the space
shuttle fuel tank
110C
HEMICAL ENCOUNTERS: Desalination
1 30 The mass of orange juice
1 34 The frontiers of medicine
251C
HEMICAL ENCOUNTERS: The Dover
Boat and Radiocarbon Dating
2 59 The mass spectrometer
2 61 Grades and the weighted average
2 75 Chalk and the White Cliffs of Dover
387C
HEMICAL ENCOUNTERS: Adrenaline in
the Body
395C
HEMICAL ENCOUNTERS: Cholesterol
in the Blood
397C
HEMICAL ENCOUNTERS: Nitrogen in
Fertilizers
399C
HEMICAL ENCOUNTERS: A Focus on
Chocolate
3 103 C
HEMICAL ENCOUNTERS: Preparation
of Aspirin
3 104 Ethanoic anhydride in manufacturing
processes
3 113 C
HEMICAL ENCOUNTERS: Cleaning the
Air on Manned Spacecraft
4 125 C
HEMICAL ENCOUNTERS: Gold Mining
and Cyanide Leaching
4 129 C
HEMICAL ENCOUNTERS: Sports
Drinks and Electrolyte Balance
4 131 Water and long-distance runners
4 135 C
HEMICAL ENCOUNTERS: Maximum Levels
of Chemicals in Drinking Water
4 137 The fluoride ion in drinking water
4 140 Determining the amount of vitamin
C in fruit juice
4 145 C
HEMICAL
ENCOUNTERS: Focus on
Lead Sulfide
4 148 Gold mine drainage cleanup
4 156 Using ammonia to fertilize fields
4 157 C
HEMICAL ENCOUNTERS: Revisiting the
Maximum Levels of Chemicals in
Drinking Water
5 172 Chemical energy in space shuttle
engines
5 175 Ammonium salts in “cold packs”
5 179 C
HEMICAL ENCOUNTERS: Energy in Foods
5 193 C
HEMICAL ENCOUNTERS: Focus on Methane
5 197 C
HEMICAL ENCOUNTERS: Energy Choices
6 219 C
HEMICAL ENCOUNTERS: Simultaneous
Determination of Elements in Water
6 224 C
HEMICAL ENCOUNTERS: The Nature
and Applications of Lasers
6 229 Scanning electron microscopes
6 237 C
HEMICAL ENCOUNTERS: The
Scanning Tunneling Microscope
6 242 C
HEMICAL ENCOUNTERS: Nuclear Spin
and Magnetic Resonance Imaging
7 269 C
HEMICAL ENCOUNTERS: Commercial
Uses of Main-Group Elements
7 270 Some commercial uses of Group IA
elements
7 271 Some commercial uses of the
Group IIA elements
7 271 Some commercial uses of the
Group IIIA elements
7 273 Oxygen and human life
(Continued at back of book)
7 277 CHEMICAL ENCOUNTERS: The Elements
of Life
7 280 Treating heavy metal poisoning
7 287 Electronegativity values and
vitamins A and C
7 290 Iron and automobiles
7 291 Iron, hemoglobin, and oxygen
7 292 C
HEMICAL
ENCOUNTERS: The Elements
and the Environment
8 306 C
HEMICAL
ENCOUNTERS: The Uses and
Behavior of Sodium Chloride
8 309 The boiler scale and hot-water
heater pipes
8 310 C
HEMICAL ENCOUNTERS: Focus on
Zeolites
8 313 C
HEMICAL ENCOUNTERS: Fluoridated
Water and Tooth Decay
8 317 C
HEMICAL ENCOUNTERS: Tetraethyl
Lead in Gasoline
8 322 The creation of aspirin
8 323 Industrial applications of hydrogen
fluoride
8 329 The Breathalyzer
8 331 C
HEMICAL ENCOUNTERS: Calcium
Channel Blockers
8 335 C
HEMICAL ENCOUNTERS: Focus on
Morphine
8 346 Crafting new drugs to be both polar
and nonpolar solvents
9 356 C
HEMICAL ENCOUNTERS: Molecular
Structure and Eyesight
9 359 Industrial applications of molecular
hydrogen
9 374 Retinal and light absorptionin the eyes
9 384 C
HEMICAL ENCOUNTERS: Benzene,
Stability, and MO Theory
9 385 Common solvents
10 401 C
HEMICAL ENCOUNTERS: Dalton’s Law
and Food Packaging
10 403 Balloons and ozone analysis
10 407 Boyle’s law and food packaging
10 419 C
HEMICAL ENCOUNTERS: Automobile
Air Bags
10 420 C
HEMICAL ENCOUNTERS: Acetylene
10 426 Effusion and the preparation of
uranium-based fuel rods
10 427 The construction of condiment packages
10 427 C
HEMICAL ENCOUNTERS:Ozone
10 431 C
HEMICAL ENCOUNTERS: The
Greenhouse Effect
11 441 C
HEMICAL ENCOUNTERS:Worldwide
Water Use
11 455 Canning at high pressure
11 461 C
HEMICAL ENCOUNTERS:CO
2
as a Dry
Cleaning Solvent
11 470 The EPA’s maximum contaminant
level in water
11 470 C
HEMICAL ENCOUNTERS: Composition
of Seawater
11 471 C
HEMICAL ENCOUNTERS: Impact of the
Solubility of Oxygen in Fresh Water
11 472 CO
2
and the preparation of soft drinks
11 473 Salt and the freezing point of water
11 480 C
HEMICAL ENCOUNTERS: Meeting
Municipal Water Needs