Chemistry Topics
Chemistry is usually divided into a handful of overlapping branches. Choose a topic to browse its definitions.
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General Chemistry
The foundational ideas every chemist relies on, atoms, elements, compounds, the mole, states of matter, and the language of chemical formulas and equations.
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Organic Chemistry
The chemistry of carbon compounds, hydrocarbons, functional groups, isomerism, and polymers, and the reactions that build the molecules of fuels, plastics, and life.
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Inorganic Chemistry
The elements and their compounds beyond simple carbon chains, metals, minerals, acids and bases, coordination complexes, and the periodic trends that govern them.
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Physical Chemistry
How and why chemical change happens, thermodynamics, kinetics, equilibrium, electrochemistry, and quantum theory applied to atoms and molecules.
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Analytical Chemistry
Identifying what a sample contains and how much of it is present, titration, spectroscopy, chromatography, and the instruments and calculations behind accurate measurement.
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Biochemistry
The chemistry of living things, proteins, enzymes, carbohydrates, lipids, and nucleic acids, and the reactions that power cells.
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