Chemistry In Context
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Author: Fahlman, Bradley D., Purvis-roberts, Kathleen, Kirk, John S., Bentley, Anne K., Daubenmire, Patrick L., ELLIS, Jamie P., Mury, Michael T., American Chemical Society
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Chapter 2, Problem 17Q
Interpretation Introduction
Interpretation:
Dry ice is solid carbon dioxide. This carbon dioxide has to be represented in symbolic, particulate, and macroscopic ways.
Concept introduction:
Greenhouse gases are one type of gas which traps the heat within the system and thus it increases the overall temperature of the earth resulting global warming.
Examples:
In symbolic representation, chemical formula can be used.
In particulate representation for a chemical compound, the elements in the compound are indicated using spheres and they are arranged in accordance with the intermolecular forces.
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