Reviews for Basic Chemistry for Water and Wastewater

The average rating for Basic Chemistry for Water and Wastewater based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-10-24 00:00:00 Glenn Murphy Done, done, done! Done with organic chemistry. Not nearly as painful as I'd built it up to be, and this book was part of what made things ok. I liked the structure of the material. Syntheses are introduced early on to get you started with simple reactions before tackling the more complicated ones. Lots of helpful explanations, charts, pictures, and summaries. The questions throughout the chapters were usually helpful in practicing material from the section, though once in awhile the questions/answers seemed to come out of the blue. Other small complaints: - there are still some errors in the answers in the back....must be because of the change in editions - some chapters were a bit overloaded with material that didn't seem necessarily to pertain to the topic of the chapter....this might be unavoidable, but some of those chapters i found overly weighty. Instead of 2 80-page chapters in a row, how about 3 52-page chapters. Otherwise, a great book. I could never teach myself the material without a teacher and a classroom and exams to motivate me. But I thought this was an excellent book!

Review # 2 was written on 2019-12-17 00:00:00 Paul Dye This is one of the best textbooks I've ever read, if I'm being completely honest. It was one of the highlights of a really difficult class, and made much of the material super accessible. I actually read the eighth edition, but usually there is not much difference. I gave it five stars because textbooks can be very bland sometimes, but this one was well-written and had super interesting blurbs with extra information.