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Prentice Hall Chemistry | 
| Authors: Dennis D. Staley, Michael S. Matta, Edward L. Waterman
Creator: Antony C. Wilbraham
Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall
Category: Book
List Price: $97.95
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 34157
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Young Adult
Pages: 826
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6.5
Dimensions (in): 11.6 x 9.1 x 2.2
ISBN: 0131152629
Dewey Decimal Number: 540
EAN: 9780131152625
ASIN: 0131152629
Publication Date: August 6, 2004
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Not too good for self-study January 23, 2006
C. Lu
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
I'm an 8th grader that wants to learn chemistry very badly, and bought this book.
Most of the book provides an adequate explanation for all the essential concepts encountered in a regular high school course. I know this because after reading this book, I looked at the state tests for a high school chemistry course, and I could do most of the problems. There are many examples in the book that help a student understand what the text is trying to explain. There are also a lot of practice problems after each section and chapter that reinforces the contents of the chapter/section very well.
However, without a teacher, if some concept is not clear, then chaos occurs. There are selected parts in the book that are vague in a way. To me, the noticable ambiguity in the text comes in the bonding chapter. They sort of assume that out of nowhere you can write an electron dot structure, a concept that other review chemistry texts take pages explaining. Hybridization was also explained poorly, and several weeks after I read that part (when I was finished with the book), I finally thought I got it, and then a chapter review problem proved that it was still a mystery. I have another chemistry book that I use to help me understand in case I don't get what's going on in this chemistry book.
Bonding isn't the only chapter that is a disaster in clarity (although it is the worst). The chapters from about 16-23 were all not as good as the other ones. There was also some guessing involved in the oragnic chemistry section, but that was not too bad; I still figured it out.
My school uses this textbook (as I found out months after I bought this book). With a teacher, this book is perfect, but without one, get ready to think; appreciate the pictures in there when you can, but focus a lot on figuring out the material.
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