The textbook is presented at a level for first year chemistry students. The online book is written with minimal reference to things that will become outdated. The hardcopy Flatworld textbook of Averill & Eldredge has some interesting video links that may become outdated, however, these are not included in the online open access textbook. I have a number of high ability students who don't hesitate to ask questions when something doesn't make sense, but they haven't pointed out any problems with the textbook. I haven't had any problems with inaccuracies. The book does not have a large variety of end-of-chapter problems. Otherwise it has a good variety of example problems throughout each chapter. I prefer to use a different open access textbook for this topic. I found the Kinetics chapter lacking in integrated rate law problems. In general the Averill & Eldredge textbook covers all of the topics found in typical General Chemistry textbooks. The FlatWorld print text has a Table of Contents and index, but no glossary though definitions for some terms in boldface are shown in the margin. Words in boldface are defined by floating the cursor over the word. The online text has a Table of Contents, but no index. Reviewed by Terrie Salupo-Bryant, Associate Professor, Manchester University on 5/5/22 Journalism, Media Studies & Communications +.
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