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Updated February 8, 2008

How Chemical Bonds Form
and Chemical Reactions Proceed

By V. Gankin & Y. Gankin

Issued by the
Institute of Theoretical Chemistry (ITC), 1998
Shrewsbury, MA, USA

Tel: (508) 799-5448
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Among the questions answered by the book are:

Why do we need an energy of 400 kJ/mol (» 4000° K)
to break a chemical bond?
How do chemical reactions break bonds at
temperatures of only 300° K?
Why can we break a chemical bond with an energy of 40 kJ/mol
which is ten times smaller than the bonding energy?
Why are radicals, ions, and conences chemically active?
What is the nature of the Periodic Law, the Lewis Rules,
the Valence Rules, the Resonance Rules, the VSEPR Rules?
What is the physical nature of Mass, of Gravitational,
Inertial, and Inter-Nuclear Forces? Etc.

Of special interest to physicists is Supplement II where the article Once Again on Physics (page 408) offers a unity of the main known physical interactions (unified physical nature) and a transition from mechanical and electrodynamics descriptions to electrodynamics interpretations of the physical picture of the world.

How Chemical Bonds Form and Chemical Reactions Proceed is intended for inquisitive and energetic instructors and students working or studying in realm of chemistry and physics, and all readers interested in chemistry and physics.

Number of pages: 451.

Price: $49.90.

The book is available at:

Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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The Book is also available at
Author House (Electronic version)
and http://www.amazon.com

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