Stephen Lower is a retired member of the
Dept of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University
Burnaby B.C. V5A 1B6 Canada
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home page, topics of general interest
Getting started in Chemistry: essential background
The Basics of atoms, moles, formulas equations and nomenclature
Orbital occupancy and the periodic table
Primer on quantum theory of the atom
Why doesn't the electron fall into the nucleus?
Acid-base without algebra: graphical treatment of acid-base systems
Fall of the electron - how to understand oxidation-reduction in chemistry and biochemistry.
Fall of the proton - how to understand acid-base reactions
A gentle introduction to water and its structure
All about chemical bonding (Chem1 virtual textbook)
Chemical bonding (shorter pages)
The electron-tunnel model of chemical bonding
All about chemical equilibrium (Chem1 Virtual Textbook)
Chemical energetics and the First Law of thermodynamics
Thermodynamics of equilibrium: entropy and the Second Law
Understanding Entropy (tutorial emphasizing entropy as a measure of energy spreading
These are mostly pdf files which require Acrobat Reader for viewing or printing.
Please see here for more detailed descriptions of the units in this section.
Primer on Quantum Theory of the Atom
- Acrobat pdf format (11 p): (View / download this file now)
- Web viewer version (revised 3/02)
Survey of Environmental Geobiochemistry.
Acrobat pdf format (58 p, 542 K): View / download this file now
An OnLine Web version is also available.Aquatic Chemistry
What is pseudoscience? How can you recognize it? All about pseudoscience, bad science, junk science and pathological science.
See also the AquaScams site below
Chem1 Concept Builder - guided, interactive and in-depth instruction for advanced-HS and college chemistry - now free!
CAI as a medium for mainline instruction in Chemistry. American Chemical Society Committee on Computers in Chemical Education Newsletter, Winter 2001.
H2OdotCON: Water pseudoscience, crackpot chemistry and quackery - home page for dubious schemes for softening water with catalysts, magnets or electric fields; magnetic laundry balls and similar scams, and dietary supplements based on various fictional structure-altered waters.
CatScams: catalytic water treatment - "precious metal" catalysts that are supposed to inject electrons into the water.
Cluster Quackery: water cluster nostrums and nonsense
- Debunking a former Cellcore Clustered Water ™ sales site
- Clustered Water™ - analysis of the scientifically absurd Lorenzen patents
- Flanagan fantasy and pseudoscience - a look at Crystal Energy® and Microhydrin®
- Nordic nonsense: absurd pseudoscience from Nordic Water Systems
Energized water wackadoo
IonBunk: "ionized water" - snake oil on tap - worthless water electrolysis devices
Other wonky water snake oil and nonsense
Pi Water and PiMag Water pseudoscientific snake oil
MagScams: magnetic water treatment and related nonsense
Magnetized water mythology
Other goofy water treatment schemes - electromagnetic, electrolytic, mysterious minerals, photonics, super-ionized water, weird vibrations and vortexes.
OxyScams: "Oxygenated water" snake oil
PentaBunk - "Penta Water" pseudoscience
Canadian Folk Music - A Centennial Collection resurrection of a long-unavailable 1967 9-LP set
Laudario 91 di Cortone - Old Italian sacred folk music
Chem1 Problem Book (44 pages) A collection of 150 "homework"-type problems organized into twenty problem sets. The 150 tutorial CAI lessons of the Chem1 Problem Proctor are keyed to these problems. Download/View this document now
Thermal physics (and some chemistry) of the atmosphere (S.K. Lower, 11 pages.) An exploration of how the temperature of the atmosphere varies with altitude can serve as a useful means of illustrating some important principles relating to the behavior of gases and to the absorption and transformation of radiant energy. [Published in J. Chem. Ed. 1998 75 837 (July)]
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