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Introductory Chemistry: Concepts and Critical Thinking (6th Edition)

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A terminally flawed textbook

By Dan - June 6, 2011

This is what textbooks have devolved into?

The text is riddled with inaccuracies and misstatements. Examples include Chapter Four - Exercise problem 33 - listing Titanium as a gas [@ 25 Celsius and one atm]. Page 105

Want more proof? Chapter Five - exercise problem 17 - swapping answers B and C asking for the number of neutrons for the elements Aluminum and Zinc. Page 137.

Mind you, this is the Sixth edition of this Introductory Chemistry text and presenting a flawed work such as this is going to mislead students unfamiliar with chemistry and add to their frustration in studying an exacting science that can be unforgiving in its complexity. I hope schools considering an introductory work would look elsewhere.

Charles Corwin should be ashamed of the mistakes and the fact that they have not been corrected in a Sixth edition.

Chemistry Textbook

By BL "BEE L" - September 10, 2010

Unfortunately I am not very thrilled about how this book goes about trying to teach you chemistry and about how many errors are in the the textbook itself. We began our class at chapter 2 but that I believe is one of the bad chapters. What really ticks me off about this chapter and many others in the book is that they go about describing the concept of something but don't explain it enough. Instead they go on describing a lot of other things which are just "extra" information. Also right after they try to explain or as I call it describe something they show you an example and then they try and get you to practice yourself. The practice is two problems or questions you get to try. Unfortunately only one of those questions describes what you should be doing when solving the problem or figuring out the question. The second problem just gives you the answer and no explanation which annoys me because the second problem usually is the harder one or the one that gets trickier to solve. From... read more

Lots of mistakes

By David Davidson - April 28, 2013

This textbook isn't too bad overall, but it does have a lot of mistakes in it. As other reviewers have noted, this is the sixth edition of this textbook and the mistakes have not been fixed yet.

The physical quality of the book is decent, but the content could be strongly improved just by removing the inaccuracies. If this book had not been required for my class, I would have chosen a different one.

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