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Version Date Change Details
1.01 September 15, 2014 Book added to the B.C. Open Textbook Collection.
1.02 September 17/15 Typos in the Conversion of Units section (pp 52-60).

Division sign missing in all examples in the PDF of text.

 Corrections made.
1.03 May 15, 2017 Links to videos updated.

New file types added: digital .pdf and .odt files.

 The updated videos are:

  • Chapter 1: Some Basic Definitions – “The Chemical World”
  • Chapter 2: Significant Figures – “Significant Figures”
  • Chapter 2: Converting Units – “Unit Conversion”
  • Chapter 5: Stoichiometry – “Stoichiometry”
  • Chapter 6: Molecular Effusion and Diffusion – “Diffusion”
  • Chapter 12: Acid-Base Titrations – “Titrations”
1.04 January 30, 2019 Error fixes and updated metadata. Chapter: Hydrocarbons

  • Image showing the Lewis structure for but-2-yne: Removed the two hydrogen atoms from the third carbon atom.

Chapter: Branched Hydrocarbons

  • A molecule was incorrectly labelled as 3-phenylheptane. It was corrected to 4-phenylheptane.
  • The label of the image in Answer 17 was corrected to say “3-methylheptane”

Metadata

  • Updated copyright information and metadata based on BCcampus standards and Pressbooks updates.
  • Edited the About the book chapter to provide up-to-date information.
1.05 February 3, 2020 Updated style and added ISBNs. Changed the theme from the Open Textbooks theme to Clarke. This may affect some of the styles and the PDF page count.
1.06 July 21, 2020 Error corrections to the section on Atomic Theory and Half-Life. Two errors corrected in Atomic Theory – Example 2: The symbol for iron was corrected from F to Fe, and the mass number (235) was added above the 92 to indicate the specific isotope of uranium. And in Half-Life, “This expression works even if the number of half-lives is not a whole number”  was changed to “This expression works best when the number of half-lives is a whole number.”
1.07 October 27, 2021 Revised for style and fixed LaTex. Cleaned up the style of the book and fixed all of the LaTeX to ensure it displays properly.

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