Major sources of difficulty in students' understanding of basic inorganic qualitative analysis

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 725-732

  Tan, Kim Chwee Daniel ^a   Goh, Ngoh Khang ^a   Chia, Lian Sai ^a   Treagust, David F ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINES; CURRICULA; DECOMPOSITION; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; EXPERIMENTS; INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; OXIDATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); REDUCTION; SOLUBILITY;

INORGANIC QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; PERIODICITY;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 2042515612     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p725     Document Type: Article

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