Burdge/Overby, Chemistry: Atoms First, 2e FM

CONTENTS xxxv 24 Modern Materials? 1002 24.1 Polymers?1003 • Addition Polymers? 1003 • Condensation Polymers? 1009 • Thinking Outside the Box: Electrically Conducting Polymers? 1011 24.2 Ceramics and Composite Materials? 1012 • Ceramics? 1012 • Composite Materials? 1013 24.3 Liquid Crystals? 1013 24.4 Biomedical Materials ? 1016 • Dental Implants? 1017 • Soft Tissue Materials? 1017 • Artificial Joints? 1018 24.5 Nanotechnology?1019 • Graphite, Buckyballs, and Nanotubes? 1019 24.6 Semiconductors?1021 24.7 Superconductors?1023 25 Nonmetallic Elements and Their Compounds? (Online only) 25.1 General Properties of Nonmetals? 1031 25.2 Hydrogen?1032 • Binary Hydrides? 1033 • Isotopes of Hydrogen? 1034 • Hydrogenation? 1034 The Hydrogen Economy? 1035 25.3 Carbon?1035 25.4 Nitrogen and Phosphorus? 1037 • Nitrogen? 1037 • Phosphorus? 1039 25.5 Oxygen and Sulfur? 1042 • Oxygen? 1042 • Sulfur? 1044 • Thinking Outside the Box: Arsenic? 1048 25.6 The Halogens? 1048 • Preparation and General Properties of the Halogens? 1049 • Compounds of the Halogens? 1051 • Uses of the Halogens? 1053 Glossary?G-1 Answers to Odd-Numbered Problems? AP-1 Credits?C-1 Index?I-1 bur11184_FM_i-001.indd 35 9/10/13 12:29 PM

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