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NOTE: This text is the Essentials version of Tro's Introductory Chemistry, Fourth Edition and contains Chapters 1-17 from that text. To order the complete text, please use ISBN 0-321-68793-0.

There are 641 pages of chapters (chapters 1-17 and 30 pages of frontmatter and 64 pages of backmatter which adds up to 736 pages.