Treatise on Solid State Chemistry

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Diffusion

   • A. D. Le Claire

   Pages 1-59

3. Factors Influencing the Reactivity of Solids

   • Walter P. Gomes, Willy Dekeyser

   Pages 61-113

4. High-Temperature Reactivity

   • Karl E. Spear

   Pages 115-192

5. Decomposition Reactions

   • F. C. Tompkins

   Pages 193-231

6. Solid-State Reactions

   • Hermann Schmalzried

   Pages 233-279

7. Solid-State Electrochemistry

   • Hans Rickert

   Pages 281-331

8. The Photographic Process

   • Frederick C. Brown

   Pages 333-388

9. Gas-Solid Reactions—Oxidation

   • Karl Hauffe

   Pages 389-456

10. Metal-Liquid Reactions: Corrosion

    • M. J. Pryor, R. W. Staehle

    Pages 457-619

11. Sintering

    • J. E. Burke, J. H. Rosolowski

    Pages 621-659

12. Reactions of Solid Polymers

    • F. A. Bovey

    Pages 661-714

13. Back Matter

    Pages 715-721

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The last quarter-century has been marked by the extremely rapid growth of the solid-state sciences. They include what is now the largest subfield of physics, and the materials engineering sciences have likewise flourished. And, playing an active role throughout this vast area of science and engineer­ ing have been very large numbers of chemists. Yet, even though the role of chemistry in the solid-state sciences has been a vital one and the solid-state sciences have, in turn, made enormous contributions to chemical thought, solid-state chemistry has not been recognized by the general body of chemists as a major subfield of chemistry. Solid-state chemistry is not even well defined as to content. Some, for example, would have it include only the quantum chemistry of solids and would reject thermodynamics and phase equilibria; this is nonsense. Solid-state chemistry has many facets, and one of the purposes of this Treatise is to help define the field. Perhaps the most general characteristic of solid-state chemistry, and one which helps differentiate it from solid-state physics, is its focus on the chemical composition and atomic configuration of real solids and on the relationship of composition and structure to the chemical and physical properties of the solid. Real solids are usually extremely complex and exhibit almost infinite variety in their compositional and structural features.

• quantum chemistry
• solid state chemistry
• structure
• thermodynamics

• Research and Patents, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, USA

  N. B. Hannay

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