The Chem1 Virtual Textbook is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License
The onllne version of the Chem1 Virtual Textbook for General Chemistry can be accessed here.
Institutional users of these materials may wish to download a copy of the Virtual Textbook for local use and as a backup in case this site should become inoperative or disappear. This will also be useful for distribution to students in locations that do not have convenient Web access. The Virtual Textbook is stored as a compressed (zipped) file chem1vt.zip. Please be aware that changes are made to the Virtual Textbook very frequently, but new postings of the downloadable version are made irregularly, usually 2-3 times per year.
To get the most recent version of chem1vt.zip, click here to download (in Windows, use the Firefox browser to do this)
The download package includes a brief README file which explains how to access the main index through a local browser.
The version you now have was uploaded on 8 February 2011.
Please see here discover the most recent chapter updates.
After you have downloaded and un-zipped the file (usually done automatically in most browsers), open the chem1vt folder, and open the README.html file within this folder.
If you are unable to open or unzip the file, it may have not downloaded properly. The size of the unzipped chem1vt file should be slightly over 107 Mb. The file chem1vt.zip should be about 86 Mb.
The Chem1 Virtual Textbook is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License