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This introduction to descriptive inorganic chemistry is a systematic survey of the chemistry of the elements according to the Periodic Classification.Written for undergraduates and complementary in its approach to conventional inorganic chemistry textbooks, it allows the reader to acquire a firm grasp of the principles that underlie the inorganic substances that can be made, their preparations, structures, chemical reactions and physical properties.The book presents theory as a background to the facts of inorganic chemistry, rather than as an end in itself.It does not concentrate on structural detail or reaction mechanisms but stresses the interplay between thermodynamic and kinetic considerations in understanding stability.The ways in which the various theories of structure and bonding are related are thoroughly dealt with throughout. The approach of this book makes it a useful text for students of any intermediate inorganic chemistry course, as well as a helpful guide for earth and material scientists. ... Read more

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Beginners in chemistry often find the terminology bewildering, and basic concepts difficult to summarize. This primer provides an alphabetical listing of concepts encountered up to a first year undergraduate inorganic chemistry course. Each entry provides more information than can be found in current chemistry dictionaries, and is written in accessible, student-friendly style. Whether using the primer to cram for exams or for quick explanations of unfamiliar topics, every chemistry student should have a copy at their desks. ... Read more

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This book provides an up-to-date survey of modern industrial inorganic chemistry in a clear and concise manner. Production processes are described in close detail, aspects such as the disposition of raw materials and energy consumption, the economic significance of the product and technical applications, as well as ecological problems, being discussed.

From reviews of the previous edition:

'... Overall this is an extremely useful, authoritative reference book dealing with a topic in which it is often difficult to obtain up-to-date information. ...'
Chemistry and Industry

'One of few texts available that concisely describes the current state of industrial inorganic chemistry. ...'
The New York Public Library

'... and as for modern uses of inorganic chemistry, I'd recommend this book as a welcome addition to any professional library...'
Chemtech

'This book fills an important niche in its sector. Industrial scientists and engineers, academics, and students can be recommended to turn to it with reasonable confidence that the most important areas are described. ...'
Endeavour

'... it fills a currently existing gap in the market.'
Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology
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The first f-block elements were discovered in the 18th and 19th centuries, since the advent of the cyclotron many more of them have been isolated. The applications of these elements range from smoke detectors to catalytic converters and they are used widely in industry, for example, in the refining of oil and the manufacture of glass and ceramics.
Chemistry of the f-Block Elements provides a systematic introduction to the chemistry of the lanthanide and actinide elements. The book illustrates the main features of f-block chemistry and the important applications of the elements and their compounds. Details and references from current research are included. Aimed at advanced undergraduate students learning about this area of inorganic chemistry, this book provides a detailed introduction to the topic. The book will also act as a useful reader for first year post-graduate students and researchers, particularly those from a non-inorganic chemistry background, requiring an overview of the area. ... Read more

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The text will provide a set of problems covering mechanistic, structural and spectroscopic issues in inorganic chemistry. Specific areas to be covered include coordination chemistry, physiochemical aspects of solution chemistry, inorganic chemistry of biological systems (both natural biomolecules and bioinorganic models). Illustrative worked examples will be included. The problems will be categorized by topic chapters for ease of reference and use in courses. They will provide a valuable resource for instructors, providing a means of testing and developing the many principles covered in texts and advanced courses. Often students find it difficult to find practical problems to test the principles they have learned in class. This text will provide a series of questions to test understanding and worked examples as a pedagogical aid. ... Read more

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Heavy water (deuterium oxide) played a sinister role in the race for nuclear energy during the Second World War. It was a key factor in Germany's bid to harness atomic energy primarily as a source of electric power; its acute shortage was a factor in Japan's decision not to pursue seriously nuclear weaponry; its very existence was a nagging thorn in the side of the Allied powers. Books and films have dwelt on the Allies' efforts to deny the Germans heavy water by military means; however a history of heavy water in itself has not been written.

This book fills that gap. It concentrates on the circumstances whereby Norway became the pre-eminent producer of heavy water, and on the scientific role the rare isotope of hydrogren played in the wartime efforts by the Axis and Allied powers alike. Instead of a purely technical treatise on heavy water, the book may better be described as a social history of the subject.

The book covers the discovery and early uses of deuterium before World War Two; its large-scale production by Norsk Hydro in Norway, especially under German control; the French-German race for the Norwegian heavy-water stocks in 1940; its importance for the subsequent German uranium project, including Allied sabotage and bombing of the Norwegian plants; likewise its lesser role in Allied projects, especially, the United States and Canada. The book concludes with an overall assessment of the importance, or perceived importance of heavy water for the German program, which alone staked everything on heavy water in its quest for a nuclear chain reaction. ... Read more

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Significant advances in our understanding of the electrochemistry of the solid state have taken place over the past thirty years,and the subject is highly relevant to chemists and physicists working on batteries, sensors, and fuel cells. This book covers topics such as the different natures of ionic conductivity in solid (ceramic) electrolytes, glasses, and polymer electrolytes; the thermodynamics and kinetics of intercalation reactions; and the interface between solid electrolytes and electrodes, which is contrasted with the more conventional liquid state electrochemistry.This text provides an essential foundation for postgraduates and will also be of value in advanced undegraduate courses. ... Read more

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This book describes potentiometric methods for determining stability constants and explains how these constants can be used to describe metal ion speciation in complex environmental and biological systems. It also provides three original computer programs on a disk for calculating stability constants and for using stability constants to calculate concentrations of molecular species in solution.
The author gives examples of calculations for simple metal chelates, for metal complexes of large organic molecules, and for mixtures containing several metal ions and complexing agents in aqueous solution. They also describe common errors in calculating stability constants and how to avoid them.
This carefully revised second edition is now even more useful to the reader, and, in particular, to those who make use of the program disk. Each program has been revised to improve speed, control, and error trapping. ... Read more

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There has been a huge increase in the use of MRI and contrast agents in medicine in recent years as evidenced by a big increase in the number of hospitals with MRI machines and the ever-increasing number of examinations using contrast agents. Contrast agents have revolutionized the use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in medical diagnostics, allowing doctors to distinguish between normal and abnormal tissues and ultimately improving prognosis for the patient.
This monograph covers all aspects of production, use, operating mechanisms and theory of these diagnostic agents, used to produce high contrast images in MRI. It will therefore be unique resource for what is currently a very active domain of research both in universities and in industry.
The Chemistry of Contrast Agents in Medical Magnetic Resonance Imaging is a comprehensive treatise:
* written by the most active scientists in the field of contrast agents for medical MRI - from both university and industrial backgrounds
* covering the topic from every angle from synthesis to safety considerations
* invaluable to physicists, chemists, biologists as well as physicians
* the first in-depth coverage of this topic ... Read more

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According to R.H. Crabtree, Metal Dihydrogen and -Bond Complexes is described as `the definitive account of twentieth-century work in the area of sigma complexation'. It covers not only Kubas' discovery of dihydrogen coordination and the study of its structure and general properties but also discusses both the theoretical beliefs and experimental results of bonding and activation of dihydrogen on metal centers and the coordination and activation of C--H, B--H, X--H, and X--Y bonds, giving an overview of `one of the hottest areas in chemistry'. ... Read more

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Clay plays an important role in everyday life. This versatile mineral is used in housing, improving the environment as a waste treatment material and also in biological applications and medical health care.

Clay Surfaces contains 17 chapters which deal with various aspects of natural and man made (synthetic) clay.Well written by experts in both experimental and theoretical areas, this book takes the reader into the fascinating world of the chemistry and physics of clay mineral surfaces and interfaces as well as the complex phenomena on the surfaces involved in clay related systems.

This book will provide a better understanding of the intervention mechanisms of interactions of soils in contact with wastes, actions to be taken in the case of chemical spillage, methods to improve the production of food without affecting the ecological balance, increased fixation of carbon in the soil to increase grain production and reduction of carbon dioxide release into the atmosphere.

*Applications covered describe the role of clays in environmental remediation and the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries.
* This book looks at theory and applications of both natural and modified clays from academic and industrial viewpoints.
* With broad appeal, this book is suitable for specialists directly involved in clay science and those undergraduate and graduate student studying related areas. ... Read more

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This text provides a concise and fully illustrated introduction to the study of interactions between molecules, a field with a growing body of applications ranging from the design of extraction agents for environmentally toxic species to the development of new pharmaceuticals. The book includes specific methods for binding cationic, anionic, and neutral guests. ... Read more

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A really nice and interesting read
Even if the book is easy to read it doesn't mean it is plain. It is interesting and it has a good structur. Some books like this end up as dry catalogues; this one does not. It gave me ideas. It sent out to the bookshelf to check up details. ("Is that really so. Never thought about it.") And if you don't need it, but have interests in the topical neighbourhood; just buy it. It's nice to read in when you are tired of equations or algorithms in chemistry. Or if you end in a good chair with a cold and wants to do something useful in chemistry, which is not too strenuous.

a good book
It's a good book to get started on this very technical subject. ... Read more

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This primer gives a concise and clear introduction to the chemistry of the second and third row d-block metals and assumes a knowledge of the chemistry of the first row metals. ... Read more

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This one-of-a-kind reference/text furnishes a thorough presentation of crystal structure development in metals, ceramics, and polymers commonly used in materials science and engineering. ... Read more

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Mostly a waste of money
The intention of this book is to provide a description of crystal structures for materials used in materials science and engineering and to emphasize relationships between structures and physical properties and to prepare the reader with the tools to design new materials with improved properties. The book is divided into 4 chapters covering the fundamentals of atoms and molecules, the fundamentals of crystallography, crystal structures, and structural changes of crystals. The intended audience consists of engineers and scientists who work on materials development. Chemists, physicists, and geologists may find useful material in descriptive crystallography and crystal structures, but no attempt has been made to cover other topics (e.g., synthetic chemistry, phase diagrams, nucleation kinetics, magnetic properties, etc.) that would be found in a solid state chemistry text.

Skip the first chapter entirely. Electronic structure and chemical bonding discussion is dated and and often wrong. Some material duplicates that found in physical and inorganic chemistry texts and virtually all such texts give a better exposition than is found here. Molecular orbital theory is presented in a confused and confusing fashion. A final section of this chapter deals with band theory; it contains an amazing number of errors in physics, grammar, and presentation. Readers would do better to go to a number of other books for a more modern, more correct, and clearer treatment of chemical bonding and electronic structure-property relationships.

The remaining chapters in this book are more worthwhile. The fundamentals of crystallography are ably presented. Here, and throughout the remainder of the text, analytical details in the text are supplemented with very good greyscale drawings that emphasize the geometrical aspects of the subject quite nicely. Point group and space group symmetries are presented in a mostly descriptive fashion, with only a brief foray into the more formal aspects of space group theory at the end of the chapter. Students who need more formal training will need to go further than the treatment given in this section. Chapter 3 presents basic crystal structures. This is fairly standard material and is covered in a much deeper and more systematic way in reference works such as Well's classic book, Structural Inorganic Chemistry. Nevertheless, modern graphics allow the reader to see any given structure in more than one way and the authors have often placed alternative presentations (ball-and-stick, polyhedra, space-filling) together in an especially effective way. This is undoubtedly the strongest pedagogical device in this book. The authors have clearly decided that each way of looking at the structure offers its own advantages and by combining modes of presentation they can exploit them all. In chapter 4, the text finishes with a mostly descriptive treatment of structural changes in crystals. Thermodynamic aspects are mentioned in places, though not emphasized. Also, symmetry is used to describe some changes, but readers are not taken through the rigorous physical aspects of the subject. What is imparted to the reader is some feeling for the range of crystal transformations possible and with the illustrations provided, the reader should be able to gain some genuine appreciation for the subject. The materials discussed in this last chapter are of decidedly mineralogical flavor - metallic systems are not discussed.

The English is atrocious. On page 95, for example, there are two inches of text below a figure. This text includes eleven sentences, all of which need some corrections or need to be completely rewritten. My eleven-year-old daughter correctly identified eight obvious errors in this passage in three minutes. In a five-minute random perusal of the text, I spotted the several misspellings and typographical errors that even a spell-checking program should have caught, including "structucral", "thermondymanics", and "primarilly" (sic). While the most egregious errors are concentrated in certain sections of the book, a few errors of grammatical construction find their way into most sections of the text.

Grossly overpriced for a book that suffers from such poor editing. ... Read more

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Dealing with the Unknowns? Then, this is the book for you.
Invariably, the final semister/quarter of General Chemistry involves determining the ions contained in an unknown solution. This can be a frustrating time for a student, which is in many instances due to the lack of clearly written and understandable laboratory procedures. When I took the class, I thankfully had a savvy professor who utilized this book (the Sixth edition) as the sole laboratory procedures. As a consequence, I did well in the lab (grade was an A) and had a positive experience.
As a teaching assistant in graduate school, I recalled how useful this book was and developed my lectures based on its content (the Chemistry department at that university utilized its own "home grown" book of procedures which were sadly lacking in clarity). This book contains much of the necessary background in reaction kinetics, solution phenomenon, and ionic properties for each group that a student needs to perform and understand the experiments. Two of the most important and indispensable aspects of this book are the flow charts and the questions in each chapter. The flow charts provide a clear, overall picture of the procedures and are easy to follow. I implemented flow charts similar to these in my class with much success. Many of my students copied those flow charts and gave them to classmates in other laboratory sections. The questions were VERY helpful in clarifying how separations of the ions could be successfully achieved and the importance of reaction conditions during these separations. The questions, or variations of them, also made good lab quiz questions. (Hint, hint.) I highly recommend answering the questions prior to performing the lab to give yourself a better idea of what to expect when following the procedures. With this book and good laboratory techniques, you should have no problem acing the Unknowns. ... Read more

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Attesting to the recognized versatility of colloidal polymers and heightening estimations of their potential in bioscience applications, Colloidal Biomolecules, Biomaterials, and Biomedical Applications is an authoritative presentation of established and newfound techniques promising to revolutionize the areas of biomedical diagnostics, therapeutics, pharmaceutics, and drug delivery. ... Read more

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Crystallographers have to apply many mathematical methods in their daily work. If ever they have a problem, this book will help to solve it. The newcomer starting work will learn how to apply these tools, the practicing crystallographer will find all the data and background material he wants to look up. In the decade since the first edition was published, new things have happened that required revision beyond correction of errors. Two chapters have been added: a section on the projection matrix and another on fast Fourier Transform. The author collected the information during his professional career. The success of the first edition indicates that many other practicing crystallographers just need exactly that information. ... Read more

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the Bible of Analytical Chemistry
Vogel's book is the Bible of analytical chemists. Vogel has compiled all the most common analytical procedures and results into an easily followed book that is both treasured and guarded by chemistry teachers in the country. The best gift any chemist could hope to receive.

A relatively good practical guide
A good practical guide for students doing undergraduate inorganic experiments. Description of techniques are clear and comprehensive which makes it useful for a laboratory reference. ... Read more