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Writing chemical reactions in general and inorganic chemistry is not a trivial task. However, writing reactions for chemical processes correctly is a clear indicator of proficiency and competence in a subject. Unfortunately, very few students grasp the concept of the correct writing of chemical reactions quickly, and so are unable to move through topics of general, analytical, and inorganic chemistry freely. Because the ability to write and balance different types of chemical reactions is a fundamental issue, this becomes a key question of chemical literacy. The successful writing of chemical reactions includes two components: the prediction of products of these reactions and their possible variations, and balancing these reactions providing a material balance between starting compounds and reactions’ products. This book explores that element of the teaching of the fundamentals of chemical literacy: writing complete equations of chemical reactions and balancing them. It contains 49 figures, 22 schemes and 12 tables, and 93 problems (with answers). This book will be very useful for high school students interested in chemical sciences, higher education teachers, students in colleges and universities majoring in chemistry and biochemistry, and chemistry professional working in industry. It also contains information about properties of the most common elements and applications of a variety of their chemical compounds.
Periodic Table as basis for understanding of chemical properties of elements
Types of chemical reactions
Directions of chemical reactions
Main classes of inorganic compounds
Practice problems for writing and balancing acids-bases reactions
Fundamentals of reduction and oxidation
Quantitative aspects of redox reactions: the Nernst equation
Pictorial representation of redox properties of elements: Frost diagrams
Qualitative aspects of redox reactions: common reducers and their reactions
Qualitative aspects of redox reactions: common oxidizers and their reactions
The role of solutions’ media on the outcome of redox reactions: effect of bases and acids
Other factors that affect redox reactions
Strategy for prediction of products of redox reactions and worked-out examples
Introductory general problems for practice of writing redox reactions
Some specific selected redox reactions for main group chemical elements in the Periodic Table
Some selected redox reactions for 3d transition metals series
Combined exercises on both types of chemical reactions: acid/base and redox
Answers to practice problems