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The Law of Mass Action

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  • © 2001

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Authors:
  1. Andrei Koudriavtsev

    1. Analytical Centre, D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia, Moscow, Russia

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  2. Reginald F. Jameson

    1. Department of Chemistry, The University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK

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  3. Wolfgang Linert

    1. Inst. for Inorganic Chemistry, Technical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria

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  • The book gives the reader a compact exposition of the theoretical basis of one of the most important laws of chemistry from the point of view of statistical mechanics
  • Although small, it nevertheless supplies all the material enabling a student in mastering some fundamental problems and get some practice in using nonideal forms of the law of mass action
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Maxwell — Boltzmann Statistics

    • Andrei Koudriavtsev, Reginald F. Jameson, Wolfgang Linert
    Pages 1-42

  3. Ensembles, Partition Functions, and Thermodynamic Functions

    • Andrei Koudriavtsev, Reginald F. Jameson, Wolfgang Linert
    Pages 43-70

  4. The Law of Mass Action for Ideal Systems

    • Andrei Koudriavtsev, Reginald F. Jameson, Wolfgang Linert
    Pages 71-106

  5. Reactions in Imperfect Condensed Systems. Free Volume

    • Andrei Koudriavtsev, Reginald F. Jameson, Wolfgang Linert
    Pages 107-144

  6. Molecular Interactions

    • Andrei Koudriavtsev, Reginald F. Jameson, Wolfgang Linert
    Pages 145-172

  7. Imperfect Gases

    • Andrei Koudriavtsev, Reginald F. Jameson, Wolfgang Linert
    Pages 173-202

  8. Reactions in Imperfect Condensed Systems. Lattice Energy

    • Andrei Koudriavtsev, Reginald F. Jameson, Wolfgang Linert
    Pages 203-248

  9. Chemical Correlations

    • Andrei Koudriavtsev, Reginald F. Jameson, Wolfgang Linert
    Pages 249-294

  10. Concluding Remarks

    • Andrei Koudriavtsev, Reginald F. Jameson, Wolfgang Linert
    Pages 295-301

  11. Appendices

    • Andrei Koudriavtsev, Reginald F. Jameson, Wolfgang Linert
    Pages 303-322

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 323-328
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'Why are atoms so small?' asks 'naive physicist' in Erwin Schrodinger's book 'What is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell'. 'The question is wrong' answers the author, 'the actual problem is why we are built of such an enormous number of these particles'. The idea that everything is built of atoms is quite an old one. It seems that l Democritus himself borrowed it from some obscure Phoenician source . The arguments for the existence of small indivisible units of matter were quite simple. 2 According to Lucretius observable matter would disappear by 'wear and tear' (the world exists for a sufficiently long, if not infinitely long time) unless there are some units which cannot be further split into parts. th However, in the middle of the 19 century any reference to the atomic structure of matter was considered among European physicists as a sign of extremely bad taste and provinciality. The hypothesis of the ancient Greeks (for Lucretius had translated Epicurean philosophy into Latin hexameters) was at that time seen as bringing nothing positive to exact science. The properties of gaseous, liquid and solid bodies, as well as the behaviour of heat and energy, were successfully described by the rapidly developing science of thermodynamics.

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J.AM. Chem. Soc., Vol. 124, No. 6, 2002: (...) The interested student may ask, "Where do I go from here? How do I handle nonideal gases and the most nonideal of gases, liquids and solids?". For this subset of students, this book is perfect. It reviews what needs to be reviewed and deals with the harder topics of chemical equilibrium in states that are less convenient than the ideal gas state. (...) For advanced, mathematically competent students, this is the perfect text. Carl David, University of Connecticut

"What can one say about a wonderful book … . The Law of Mass Action represents the culminating relationship of standard chemical thermodynamics, a sort of crown jewel of abstract reasoning putting the Gibbs’ free energy at the service of chemical equilibrium. … It reviews (succinctly) what needs to be reviewed and deals with the harder topics of chemical equilibrium in states that are less convenient than the ideal gas state. … For advanced, mathematically competent students, this is the perfect text." (Carl David, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 124 (6), 2002)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Analytical Centre, D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia, Moscow, Russia

    Andrei Koudriavtsev

  • Department of Chemistry, The University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK

    Reginald F. Jameson

  • Inst. for Inorganic Chemistry, Technical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Wolfgang Linert

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