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Course Teamm Dr Adakole Ikpe (Course Writer/Adaptor)
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National Open University of Nigeria
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Dr F. Apata (Course Coordinator) Na
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tional Open University of Nigeria Dr
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T James (Programme Leader) Nation
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al Open University of Nigeria
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NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA
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CONTENTS PAGE
Introduction……………………………………… iv
What You Will Learn in this Course………….….
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Learning Outcomes-Aims and Objectives………..
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Working through this Course……………………..
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. Textbooks and References………………………
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INTRODUCTION
Welcome to this chemistry course. We suppose that many of you are ta
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king this course because you want to strengthen your-
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background in chemistry. Armed with this strong background in chemi
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stry, you can then proceed to advanced programmes in chemistry. The t
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raining of biologists, geoscientists, medical doctors, nurses, soil scientis
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ts, food scientists, chemical engineers, petroleum engineers and many o
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thers requires that students in those areas have a good exposure in che
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mistry.
We have packaged this chemistry course in such a way that you will le
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arn chemistry using a technique peculiar to the open learning system. T
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his technique has been adopted by the National Open University of Nig
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eria in most of the courses offered to students.
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You will here learn the content of this chemistry course at a reasonable
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mpace. You will need to master the language chemists use to describe th
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e world around us. The language is simple, interesting and specific to t
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he subject, chemistry.
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We wish you success with the course and hope that you will find it bot
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h interesting and useful.
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WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS COURSE
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This course is titled “General Chemistry for Integrated Science l" this p
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resent course, you will be presented information in chemistry in a struc
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tured way to make learning easier. All the units follow the same patter
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n and so after the first few units, the rest will become easy to follow.
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The board aims of this foundation chemistry course can be summarized
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mthus: The course aims to provide you with chemistry content that will
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be sufficient for you in the integrated science program. Thus you will h
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ave solid foundation in chemistry which enable you go into an advance
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d science course needing a background of chemistry.
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The objectives of this course are set out below. On completion of the c
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ourse, you should be able to:
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• distinguish between chemistry and the other science subjects.
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• discuss the role of chemistry in our everyday living.
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• apply the language of chemistry in describing the world around
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you.
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