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Preparative Exercises in General Chemistry George 6. Kauffman California State University, Fresno, CA 93740 Most of us who are chemical educators were probably first attracted to our science because of its descriptive aspects, that is. the reactions of the elements and their comnounds. I have ykt to meet a chemistry teacher who chose this profession because of an enjoyment derived from calculating concentrations of ionic species from equilibrium constants or solubility product constants. (My own interest in chemistry was awakened by a chemistry set that I received as a seventh-birthday present.) Although theory and its concomitant quantitative calculations constitute a sine qua non of chemistry, they are far from being.the "be-alland end-a1l"of the subject. The Neglect of Descriptive Chemistry Yet, following the launching of Sputnik on October 4, 1957. in an attemnt to "uoerade" chemical education the emphasis ingeneralchemistr
