Chemistry 101: Revealing the One Simple Truth that Makes Chemistry Easy, Intuitive and Enlightening

April 13, 2010 - 9:00am

Brent Iverson

Most students find chemistry to be overly difficult and tedious, with no connection to their lives. Understanding the concept of electronegativity and how it relates to the unequal sharing of electrons in chemical bonds turns chemistry into an intuitive science that can be used to explain any number of complex phenomena such as why water is a liquid at room temperature and how drugs work. Brent Iverson will reveal these and other simple truths about chemistry and discuss common misconceptions about how modern science works.

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