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Summary: Excellent!! Concise, informative, easy to use, and helpful!
Review: I know for a fact that majors colleges are using this book for Chemistry 142-162. I myself am a High School student taking AP Chemistry. I found the book better to be the one assigned to me by my High School and I often use it when things are not clear. This book is excellent.
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Summary: I think it is a great text
Review: I was out of school for a long time, in fact, 16 years since I had high school Chemistry, so I was really nervous about taking a tough Chemistry course. I ended up doing great and I honestly believe you can learn the material from the text only. I think it is an excellent text with problems and examples that facilitate learning.My Physics text, on the other hand, is AWFUL!
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Summary: I think it is a great text
Review: I was out of school for a long time, in fact, 16 years since I had high school Chemistry, so I was really nervous about taking a tough Chemistry course. I ended up doing great and I honestly believe you can learn the material from the text only. I think it is an excellent text with problems and examples that facilitate learning. My Physics text, on the other hand, is AWFUL!
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Summary: excellent introduction to chemistry
Review: The book gives a clear and precise introductio to the mail concepts in chemistry. The excellent graphics, examples and discussions on frontiers of chemistry makes this book very useful, and motivates students to go deepest in knowledge.
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Summary: a good general chemistry text for science majors
Review: This is a very useful chemistry textbooks for a science student who studies independently. I like this book for several reasons: (1) It is comprehensive, (2) It contains detailed explanatins of WHY and HOW things happen,(3) The book includes numerous worked-out problems, and (4) The book is written in a very readable manner, containing straight-foward language and excellent graphic explanations. I am studying biochemistry now, and I go back to this text very often for the explanation of certain topics, eg. buffer problems. The coverage of organic chemistry is very basic in Silberberg's book. For in-depth coverage refer to Organic Chemistry: Structure and reactivity by Seyhan Ege (ISBN 0395902231), a very good book that emphasizes understanding, not memorization. A note: solutions to all problems in Ege's book are in the study guide.
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Summary: ABSOLUTELY AMAZING
Review: THIS IS THE BEST CHEMISTRY BOOK I'VE EVER USED. THE GRAPHICS ARE AMAZING AND THE LAYOUT IS SOMETHING ELSE. I WOULD DEFINITELY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK FOR ALL OF YOU TAKING A COLLEGE-LEVEL GENERAL CHEMISTRY COURSE. THOUGH AT TIMES THE MATERIAL CAN BE A BIT DIFFICULT TO FOLLOW DUE TO ALL THE FLASHY GRAPHICS. BUT OVERALL, THIS IS A VERY GOOD CHEMISTRY BOOK. HATS OFF TO MR. SILBERBERG. YOU DEFINITELY GET AN A FOR THIS BOOK. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.
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Summary: Occasionally Helpful
Review: This is the book used for General Chemistry at the University of Florida. This book was occasionally helpful with equations and broad topics, but didn't go into enough detail on some subjects, especially in the Acid/Base chapters. Otherwise it's a decent reference.
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Summary: Occasionally Helpful
Review: This is the book used for General Chemistry at the University of Florida. This book was occasionally helpful with equations and broad topics, but didn't go into enough detail on some subjects, especially in the Acid/Base chapters. Otherwise it's a decent reference.
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Summary: Avoid this book at all costs!!
Review: While I would hesitate to recommend this to someone who had never taken high school chemistry, as a second year high school book and a science majors' level college text, this book is fantastic. Comparing it to an old version of Brady & Humiston, and Zumdahl's Introductory Chemistry, Silberberg wins hands down. Fantastic layout and detailed explanations of most topics. Not good for the most basic topics (don't even think about learning oxidation-reduction reaction balancing from this text).
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