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Title: Essentials of Geochemistry
ISBN: 0763726427
Author:
John V. Walther
Publicate Date: 2005-01-31
Publish: 2005-01-31
List Price: $124.95
Average Customer Rating: 1.5
Format: Hardcover
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1: Inefficient and ineffective.
My prof. utilized this text for the first time last semester, and assumed it would be a good text. My background was Chem I, Chem II, Organic Chem, and Quantitative Analysis. I and a classmate with a similar background both found this text to be ineffective and inefficient. For example, one must page to Chapter 5 before finding a periodic table; every chemistry text I've seen thus far includes one on the opening pages. The treatment of atomic orbital energies was the worst I've ever seen - what introductory texts handle with a few well-chosen diagrams was written out into a page of excruciating text (p 146-147). Equations were given, but it was not always readily clear what each symbol stood for; examples were nearly non-existant. I was so excited about this course and I'm just grateful that the instructor was of much higher quality than the text.
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2: Not very helpful.
This is not a very helpful text to anyone interested in aqueous geochemistry. One thing to consider before purchasing this text...Do you have a background in this material? If you do, then it might prove useful (i.e. professors and professionals). If not, then consider another text (i.e. students...I really don't think anyone will read a geochem text for fun). If you are a student and this is the required text, then buy another used text (see below) or checkout another text from the local/campus library to assist you. You will not find any thoroughly solved examples in this text. The so-called examples that are presented are not very helpful. Examples would have been great and considering the size of the text, one wonders why they were not included.
Students: checkout Drever or Langmuir or the old classic by Garrels and Christ. If you are new to this material, I would recommend Drever then follow up with Garrels.
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