1.  INTRODUCTION -  

hemistry is the study of matter and the interactions among different types of matter.  Matter is anything that has mass and occupies space.  The first step in learning more about chemistry is to read as much as you  can on your areas of interest.  The book "Chemistry - The Easy Way" is an example of a "low cost" guide to get you started.   Chemistry has four major areas of interest and many sub-specialties.  

1.  Organic Chemistry - The study of the element carbon and its compounds including living matter.

Web-ster's Organic Chemistry - http://ep.llnl.gov/msds/orgchem/Web-sters_Org_Chem.html
Organic Chemistry Help -  http://www.chemhelper.com/

2.  Inorganic chemistry - The study of all other elements of non-living matter.

Washington State - http://www.wsu.edu/~wherland/Virtual U. North - http://www.compusmart.ab.ca/plambeck/che/struct/s060x.htm

3.  Analytical chemistry - The study of " What is it?" or qualitative chemistry and "How much is there?"  which is quantitative chemistry.  Analytical chemistry is the analysis of compounds.   

U. Akron; Analytical Chemistry - http://ull.chemistry.uakron.edu/analytical/index.html  
Analytical Chemistry  - http://www.netaccess.on.ca/~dbc/cic_hamilton/anal.html

4.  Physical Chemistry - The quantitative aspects of the physical properties of substances and their relationship to chemical structure and composition.

Biochemistry - The study of biologically active substances.Polymer chemistry - The chemistry of long chained molecules.

Solid state chemistry - The behavior of solids.

Organometallic chemistry - The chemistry of compounds in which a metal is bonded in an organic compound.

General Chemistry Online - http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/index.shtml

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Chemistry is the study of the atomic building blocks of nature, how they combine and their combinations which form the solids, liquids, and gases that make up most forms of matter. For the many different chemical elements and compounds, see:

• The Periodic table
• List of compounds
• Inorganic chemistry, including solid state chemistry, which studies the basic principles that are applied in mineralogy and materials science.
• Organic chemistry, which underlies biochemistry and polymer chemistry and is the study of carbon-containing molecules.
• Physical chemistry, which includes computational chemistry, quantum chemistry and surface chemistry.
• Analytical chemistry, the basis of environmental chemistry.

To represent structures easily, you can use chemical ASCII-art.

NEW! Periodic Chart of the Elements with correlation to their health aspects - http://www.lenntech.com/periodic-chart.htm
Each element contains a link to a page that explains its chemical properties, and its health effects and environmental effects,  In four languages

Nuclear Terminology
The Language of the Nucleus, on-line edition.
The world's largest nuclear glossary. http://glossary.dataenabled.com/

CHEMISTRY 
TUTORIALS 

http://www.chemistrycoach.com/tutorials-4.htm#Acids%20and%20Bases:

CHEMISTRY TERMS
Chemistry Thesaurus - download 

IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology
[A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M]
[N] [O] [P] [Q] [R] [S] [T] [U] [V] [W] [X] [Y] [Z]

The following WWW links will take you directly to the various web site pages.  Your browser URL address line will tell you the origin of the site.

Chemistry Review    http://esg-www.mit.edu:8001/esgbio/chapters.html

For a brief introduction to chemistry click on this;
TUTORIAL 1.   
then , TUTORIAL 2  http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/tutorials

Next visit the following links that interest you.

How to survive basic chemistry.    www.chemtutor.com
Learning style management.   www.chemtutor.com
Class management.   www.chemtutor.com
How to study for tests.    www.chemtutor.com
Some pointers on general studying for chemistry.  www.chemtutor.com
Problem solving skills in chemistry.   www.chemtutor.com
Some possibly useful pointers on problem solving.   www.chemtutor.com

2. MATTER - Matter is physically everything that exists that we can touch and feel. Matter consists of atoms.  

Read an introduction to ATOMS here.  

Here is a comparison of solids, liquids and gasses CLICK HERE.  All matter can be classified as being either a pure substance or a mixture.  Matter can exist as either a solid, liquid, or a gas and can change among these three states of matter.  Mixtures can be heterogeneous (made up of two or more physically different parts or states of matter) or homogeneous (consisting of components that cannot be individually detected.)  Homogenous mixtures are usually called solutions.  In a two-component system, the major component is called the solvent and the minor component is called the solute.  Aqueous solutions have water as the solvent.  If the components of a solution can be mixed in any proportion, they are said to be miscible.  A colloid is a mixture in which the particles of the lesser phase are intermediate in size between those present in the homogeneous mixtures and those in heterogeneous mixtures; typically they are on the order of 10 to 10,000 angstroms in diameter.

żAnd you thought you were strange?        www.chemtutor.com
Atomic weights and atomic numbers.   www.chemtutor.com
Formula weight or molecular weight.     www.chemtutor.com
Electron configuration.   www.chemtutor.com
Electron configuration chart.   www.chemtutor.com
Common electron configuration scheme.   www.chemtutor.com
Octet rule as seen on the periodic chart.    www.chemtutor.com
Sideways periodic chart with electron shell numbers.      www.chemtutor.com
Lewis structures of elements.    www.chemtutor.com
The view from above.  www.chemtutor.com
Kinetic theory of matter.   www.chemtutor.com
Solids.   www.chemtutor.com
Liquids.   www.chemtutor.com

GASES  See special article from Scott Specialty Gases

Description: The Scott Specialty Gases website is a valuable resource for technical and safety chemical information including an online MSDS Library, comprehensive downloadable Design and Safety handbook, chemical innovations, specialty gases, chemical safety tips, and compliance documentation.  Scott Specialty Gases http://www.scottgas.com/

Famous scientist quote:
"All men deal with matter in the gross and our bodies are constructed of it.  Mysteries of matter, therefore, have a fascination for thoughtful laymen as well as scientists and technologists.  The atom has long been familiar as the ultimate unit of matter".  Lord Ernest Rutherford (18771 - 1937)

3.  ELEMENTS - There are four major parts to learning chemistry basics. - - Elements, Laws and Theories, Combinations of Elements, and Applied Chemistry - learn about them and what the words mean to know the inner mysteries of chemistry.  Learn about each elements physical characteristics and atomic structure by periodic chart of elements and each elements associated physical characteristics.  

At first concentrate on the more common elements of hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, sodium, potassium, sulfur, and a few metals like copper, zinc, silver, mercury, and lead.   Later you can study the rest of the elements.