In this post, we will see the book General Chemistry by N. Glinka.

About the book

This is a translation of textbook “General Chemistry” for students in non-chemical colleges of the USSR. It may be used as a supplementary reading materials for technical school students specializing in chemistry and for persons studying the subject by the way of self-education.

The book was translated from Russian by David Sobolev was published in 1958 by Foreign Languages Publishing House.

PS: Scan quality is not great but is mostly readable, OCR result has been horrible.

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Contents

CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION 11
CHAPTER II. ATOMS AND MOLECULES
CHAPTER III. PERIODIC LAW OF MENDELEYEV 76
CHAPTER IV. ATOMIC STRUCTURE 94
CHAPTER V. STRUCTURE OF MOLECULES 120
CHAPTER VI. STRUCTURE OF SOLID SUBSTANCES 136
CHAPTER VII. DEVELOPMENT OF THE PERIODIC LAW 150
CHAPTER VIII. CHEMICAL KINETICS AND CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUM 174
CHAPTER IX. HYDROGEN 190
CHAPTER X. WATER. SOLUTIONS 203
CHAPTER XI. PROPERTIES OF SOLUTIONS 223
CHAPTER XII. THEORY OF ELECTROLYTIC DISSOCIATION 234
CHAPTER XIII. AIR. THE INERT GASES 283
CHAPTER XIV. THE HALOGENS 290
CHAPTER XV. THE OXYGEN GROUP 317
CHAPTER XVI. THE NITROGEN GROUP 357
CHAPTER XVII. THE CARBON GROUP 399
CHAPTER XVIII. GENERAL PROPERTIES OF METALS 490
CHAPTER XIX. FIRST GROUP OF THE PERIODIC TABLE 529
CHAPTER XX. THEORY OF FORMATION OF COMPLEX COMPOUNDS 555
CHAPTER XXI. SECOND GROUP OF THE PERIODIC TABLE 565
CHAPTER XXII. THIRD GROUP OF THE PERIODIC TABLE 584
CHAPTER XXIII. METALS OF THE FOURTH AND FIFTH GROUPS OF THE PERIODIC TABLE 597
CHAPTER XXIV. METALS OF THE SIXTH AND SEVENTH GROUPS OF THE PERIODIC TABLE 617
CHAPTER XXV. EIGHTH GROUP OF THE PERIODIC TABLE 631
CHAPTER XXVI. ATOMIC NUCLEUS 652
Appendix. Transformations of Radioactive Elements 671