Includes appendices, glossary and index.

Contents: The nature of chemistry. -- Chemical compounds. -- Chemical reactions. -- Energy and chemical reactions. -- Electron configurations and the periodic table. -- Covalent bonding. -- Molecular structures. -- Properties of gases. -- Liquids, solids, and materials, Fuels, organic chemical, and polymers. -- Chemical kinetics: rates of reactions. -- Chemical equilibrium. -- The chemistry of solutes and solutions. -- Acids and bases. -- Additional aqueous equilibria. -- Thermodynamics: directionality of chemical reactions. -- Electrochemistry and its applications. -- Nuclear chemistry. -- The chemistry of the main-group elements. -- Chemistry of selected transition elements and coordination compounds.