This is second volume in the "Crystalline Solids" series. The first volume, "Essentials of Crystallography" was published by BSP in 1986. The objective of this new volume is to explain, in some considerable depth, the structural control of chemical and physical properties. The text is concerned throughout with those aspects of solid-state chemistry and physics which are especially relevant to crystalline solids. It deals not only with the characteristics of single phases but also with the thermodynamic and kinetic control of solid-state transformation. Particular attention is given to the role of optics in the study of transparent anisotropic materials and to the structural control of some of the directional properties which are of critical significance in contemporary technology.
The following areas are covered within the text: descriptive crystal chemistry; cohesive forces in crystals; structure and bonding in some simple compounds; introduction to thermodynamics; phase equilibrium - the interpretation of phase diagrams; structure and bonding in some complex compounds; tensor properties and crystals - second-rank tensor properties; third-rank and fourth-rank tensor properties and crystals; electrical and magnetic properties; mechanical properties; crystal optics; polarized light microscopy; and solid-state processes.
- ISBN10 0632016612
- ISBN13 9780632016617
- Publish Date 2 September 1987
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 24 September 2004
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Imprint Blackwell Science Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 494
- Language English