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Unit 1: Laboratory Safety
 * 1) Classroom tour of safety devices
 * 2) Review of Rules, Safety Contract
 * 3) General Equipment usage and care

Unit 2: History of Chemistry
 * 1) Ancient developments in chemistry
 * 2) Discovery of metals and alloys: properties of metals and nonmetals
 * 3) Greek philosophers to Alchemy: physical versus chemical properties
 * 4) The end of Alchemy: the scientific method and the metric system

Unit 3: Measurement and Uncertainty
 * 1) base units and prefixes
 * 2) accuracy versus precision

Unit 4: Gases
 * 1) the Kinetic Molecular Theory
 * 2) pressure and temperature units
 * 3) Boyle's, Charles' and Avogadro's Laws
 * 4) ideal versus non-ideal gases
 * 5) Phlogiston Theory

Unit 5: The Elements
 * 1) Lavoisier and his introduction to nomenclature
 * 2) Mendeleev and his organization skills
 * 3) Periodic Trends:
 * chemical activity
 * electronegativity
 * atomic radius
 * ionization energy
 * electron affinity

Unit 6: Discovery of Atomic Structure
 * 1) Dalton's Atomic Theory (Democritus was first!)
 * 2) which postulates were wrong, and why?
 * 3) J. J. Thomson and his CRT, plum pudding model
 * 4) Rutherford and his gold foil
 * 5) Bohr and his planetary model
 * 6) the electromagnetic spectrum and colorful ions

Unit 7: Radioactivity
 * 1) Marie Curie, Rontgen, and naturally occuring radioisotopes
 * 2) three types of radiation
 * 3) alpha particle decay
 * 4) half-life
 * 5) radon detection
 * 6) nuclear power and its safety: Chernobyl and Three Mile Island

Unit 8: The Electronic Structure of the Elements
 * 1) quantization
 * energy levels, types of sublevels, orbital shapes, and electron spin
 * 1) how to write an electron address
 * 2) how to draw orbital notation
 * 3) predictions using electronic structure (the Octet Rule):
 * ionic charge
 * chemical activity
 * covalent bonding sites

Unit 9: Bond Types and Nomenclature of Compounds
 * 1) the ionic bond versus the covalent bond
 * 2) ionic compound nomenclature
 * 3) covalent compound nomenclature

Unit 10: Chemical Reactions
 * 1) how to write and balance a chemical equation
 * 2) types of chemical reactions:
 * synthesis
 * decomposition
 * single replacement
 * double replacement
 * 1) specific classes of reactions:
 * acid-base reactions
 * precipitate reactions
 * combustion reactions
 * oxidation-reduction reactions
 * a taste of electrochemistry
 * 1) predicting products of chemical reactions
 * 2) predicting phases of products: solubility rules

Unit 11: Chemical Formulas and the MOLE
 * 1) formula weights
 * 2) percent composition
 * 3) the mole: Avogadro's Number

Unit 12: Environmental Chemistry
 * 1) Atmosphere
 * ozone layer
 * climate change
 * acid rain
 * air pollution
 * 1) Soils
 * fertilizers, pesticides
 * landfills
 * mining and drilling
 * deforestation
 * 1) Water
 * fresh water supplies
 * water treatment
 * industrial discharge
 * ocean water