Chemistry and Society

Author: Tang Youqi
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Publish Date: 2003-04-01
Features: This book takes chemical knowledge as the main thread and focuses on widely concerned social issues, elaborating on the relationship between chemistry and social development. The content includes the continuity of chemistry, chemical bonds, the periodic law and atomic structure, energy and its development and utilization, environmental pollution and environmental protection, chemistry and life phenomena, nutrition and health, materials science, as well as the philosophical thoughts in the development of the chemical discipline. Through studying this book, students from humanities and management disciplines can gain a general understanding of the characteristics and important role of natural sciences through the window of chemistry, thereby broadening their horizons and improving their scientific literacy. This book can not only serve as a chemistry textbook for humanities majors but also as a reference book for people from all walks of life to understand the relationship between chemistry and social development.