Reveals the links between an atom's structure and its chemical destiny showing how an atom makes its passage through nature.

Peter Atkins and Julio de Paula offer a fully integrated approach to the study of physical chemistry and biology.

With its modern emphasis on the molecular view of physical chemistry, its wealth of contemporary applications, vivid full-color presentation, and dynamic new media tools, the thoroughly revised new edition is again the most modern, most ...

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Volume 1 of Physical Chemistry, Ninth Edition, contains the new edition’s new Fundamentals chapters (Chapter 0), plus coverage of thermodynamics (Chapters 1-6) and kinetics (Chapters 20-23)

Arranged much like a travel guide, the book introduces the reader to the general features of the table, the history of the elements, and the underlying arrangement of the table in terms of the structure and properties of atoms.

Portrays the structures of the substances that make up our everyday world.

First published in 1989. Includes CD Rom demo.