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The Structure of Substances *suitable for home teaching*
This is one of the 18 Background Books published for Stage II of the Nuffield Chemistry Sample Scheme. The books were highly illustrated and designed to be attractive. This book describes what chemists know about the structure of substances and follows from the Background Book called The Start of X-Ray Analysis
. The main topics are: *The importance of structure *Solids, liquids and gases *Crystals: the packing of particles *Metals *Non-metallic elements *Ionic crystals *Other crystalline substances *Giant molecules. This book was published in 1969 but still provides a useful overview of the main types of structure met in GCSE and post-16 courses.
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