Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry |  | Author: Geoffrey Rayner-Canham
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: 2nd
Pages: 595
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Dimensions (in): 10.2 x 8.2 x 1.3
ISBN: 0716735539
Dewey Decimal Number: 546
EAN: 9780716735533
ASIN: 0716735539
Publication Date: July 1999
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Product Description
This text aims to give beginning inorganic chemistry students an understanding of inorganic chemical compounds and the necessary skills to thrive in an ever changing chemical industry. It offers a thorough approach to the subject, stressing both theory and trends, as well as patterns in compound behaviour, while providing a historical background of the field.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Excellent introductory text December 5, 2007
Daniel Rabinovich (USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a very informative and readable introductory text to inorganic chemistry, and a good choice for those not needing a full semester of coordination, organometallic or solid state inorganic chemistry. We've used this and previous editions for several years for our sophomore-level course, which students pursuing a B.A. degree are required to take (it is also an elective for chemistry minors). This textbook is not comprehensive as "Cotton & Wilkinson" or "Greenwood & Earnshaw" and is probably not suitable for an Advanced Inorganic Chemistry course, which is the one our B.S. chemistry majors take. Overall, we're very satisfied with this textbook.
 An excellent intro text... August 26, 2002
Concordia University Chemistry Graduate (Montreal, Quebec Canada)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
The text is filled with tons of info, yet written so that almost anyone can understand. This text is excellent for an intro course in inorganic or a first year undergraduate chemistry/biochemistry program. However, what it lacks in depth it gains for in it's user friendlyness. A must for students who don't plan on doing any adavnced inorganic chemistry.
Good, but lacks something... April 2, 2009
Justin Mobley (Little Rock, AR USA)
So far, this book has helped me learn what I am trying to learn, but sometimes I find that the presentation of the book is not intuitive enough. I have had to go to the internet several times to look up things that I felt were needed to understand what the text was covering. Once I understood the concepts, I could then go back to the text and continue without much of a problem. I'm sure this would not be a problem in a classroom setting, since a professor usually complements the textbook with their lecture.
Another problem I had with this book is a lack of solution help. The guide, which you can also buy from Amazon, is too expensive for only containing half the solutions (odd problems only). I can understand the need to prevent people from cheating in a classroom setting, but this has hindered me a little bit in the learning process (I am self-teaching myself prior to enrolling in chemistry).
I think the book is overall a good way to learn chemistry, but still feel some of the concepts need to be developed through other material.
 Decent Book October 6, 2008
Eric Feng
Decent chemistry book. Not terribly well written or that in depth. I bought it for a class, but probably would not buy it for "general reference." Completely black and white, no color.
 Descriptive Inorganic by Canham and Overton April 30, 2006
NML (Boston)
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
In my opinion, this text is vastly inferior to something like the, often used, inorganic text by Rogers. The text did not seem logically composed, and the questions often seem to have little to do with the chapter at hand thus requiring copious back and forth between other diverse chapters. In a nutshell, the book is simply badly organized. If this were not bad enough, even in the fourth addition, typos are not that uncommon in both the book and its thin, yet expensive, solutions manual.
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