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C.H. Langford, Concordia University Dr. Wrighton s paper maintains appropriate discretion with respect to the twenty-first century. As Neils Bohr said, "Prediction is difficult, especially about the future". However, he does call attention to a number of problems in solid state and interfacial chemistry which are certainly important now and would not have been likely to be picked out for emphasis in a meeting of inorganic chemists held ten years ago and oriented to the theme of... 

Biofilms are capable of maintaining environments at biofihn/surface interfaces that are radically different from the bulk fluid in terms of pH, dissolved oxygen, and other organic and inorganic species (Fig. 3). In some cases, these interfacial conditions could not be maintained in the bulk medium at room temperature near atmospheric pressure. The consequence is that microorganisms within biofilms facilitate reactions that are not predicted by thermodynamic arguments based on the chemistry of the bulk medium. 

Table 5.1 classifies how chemical regimes meet in the climate system. We see that almost normal conditions occur and extreme low and high temperatures border the climate system. The chemistry described in the following chapters concerns almost these normal conditions of the climate system. We focus on the troposphere and the interfaces. For example, aqueous phase chemistry in cloud droplets does not differ principally from surface water chemistry (aquatic chemistry) and much soil chemistry does not differ from aerosol chemistry (colloidal chemistry). Plant chemistry, however, is different and only by using the generic terms (Chapter 2.2.2.S) of inorganic interfacial chemistry can we link it. The chemistry of the atmosphere is widely described (Seinfeld and Pandis 1998, Wameck 1999, Finlay-son-Pitts and Pitts 2000, Wayne 2000, Brasseur et al. 2003) and the branches in atmospheric chemistry are well defined (Fig. 5.2). 

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