Steven S. Zumdahl
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BIOGRAPHY
Professor and Associate Head, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Author of Chemical Principles and many others.
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Inorganic compound, any substance in which two or more chemical elements (usually other than carbon) are combined, nearly always in definite proportions. Compounds of carbon are classified as organic when carbon is bound to hydrogen. Carbon compounds such as carbides (e.g., silicon carbide [SiC2]),…
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