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Review title: Complicated explanations of simple ideas
Product review: I have the 6th edition. Perhaps the book has improved in the 10th. I find complicated explanations of simple ideas over and over. I have only read to page 70. In the beginning of section 3.1 Chemical Equations, the book suggests the following substitutions: We read the + sign to mean "reacts with" and the arrow as "produces". This scheme will not produce good English for any chemical equation and will produce incorrect statements for most (A + B -> C + D does NOT mean to imply that C reacts with D). What could be simpler than + means "and"? Then the arrow means "reacts to produce", and everything works. In the same paragraph, the book confuses number and numeral and gets it wrong. If you look with a critical eye, you will find slightly off statements every few pages. I could not recommend this book to a beginner who does not have a teacher to smooth over the rough points.
