Classification concise summary

The presentation in this chapter dwells rather heavily on the classification, measurement, and interpretation of non-Newtonian behavior. These rheological fundamentals have frequently been presented in literature which is unfamiliar to the engineer and have usually included much discussion of factors which at the present time are of minor engineering interest. Accordingly, it was felt that one of the primary needs in this field was a concise summary of these fundamentals and common definitions. It is hoped that thereby future developments may be undertaken in an orderly and rigorous manner, as contrasted to the relatively fruitless empiricism which has enveloped areas of this field in the past. 

Huheey (1983) (see Section A.3 of the Appendix) gives in Appendix J a good, concise summary of the rules for inorganic nomenclature. For the classification of substances according to structural type, see the books listed in Section A.6. Wells (1984) is specially recommended. 

Bianchi et al. present a concise pictorial summary of the QTAIM characterisation and classification of bonding interactions in the conclusion of their paper about the electron density of Mn2(CO)io [114]. Figure 2 is an adaptation (with modifications) of their scheme. The classification is to be taken as a general guide since exceptions and special cases do arise as one attempts to draw a correspondence between classical bonding descriptors (ionic, covalent, etc.) and quantum mechanical quantities. 

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