The Subject Matter of This Book

We wish to express our gratitude to the chemists who have made suggestions with regard to the subject-matter of this book many of these suggestions have now been incorporated in this edition. We would warmly welcome further suggestions for improving its contents. 

On December 28, 2006 Professor Ferro suddenly died. After working for so many years under his direction, I feel indebted not only for his valuable scientific advice, but above all for the precious example he gave me through his dedication to science and teaching. Intermetallic compound chemistry, the subject matter of this book, is the focal point of Prof. Ferro s scientific activity and the subject to which he has dedicated his professional life. 

The history of the subject matter of this book may be divided into three periods ... 

For the subject matter of this book, it is of particular interest to consider the situation for a non-crystalline system analogous to that of crystalline ytterbium or strontium under pressure, namely that when a valence and conduction band are separate or overlap slightly. If the degree of overlap can be changed by varying the mean distance between atoms, the composition or the coordination number then a metal-insulator transition can occur. Many examples will be discussed in this book, particularly amorphous films of composition (Mgi- )j(By3, liquid mercury at low densities, and liquid tellurium alloys in which the coordination number changes with temperature. The transition is, we believe, of Anderson type. 

Many of the papers devoted to the two topics discussed above are essentially technological in character and do not attempt to characterise structure and order and thus are not really relevant to the subject matter of this book. However, a number of such papers have made important contributions to the field of non-linear optics and infrared detection. Thus the remainder of this action will consist of a discussion of those papers whose content is directly relevant to questions of order and structure followed by a catalogue of some of the other more important papers in this general field. 

Here are listed the most important sources of further information on the subject matter of this book. It is far from comprehensive, but most of the titles should be found in a good university library. 

On the other extreme of negligible viscosity, which is of little interest to the subject matter of this book, but is added for the sake of comprehensiveness, the equation of motion reduces to... 

This review is organized as follows in Sec. 2, the large scale phenomenological physics of meteors is discussed, detailing observations as well as the respective current interpretations. Meteorites will not be discussed in this review. Studies of the chemical and physical processes associated with meteorites have been largely concerned with composition, phase transformations and entrapment of noble gases in the solid meteorites. The reader is referred to several reviews and textbooks on the subject.The elementary gas-phase molecular dynamics relevant to the meteor environment is discussed in Sec. 3, and will primarily focus on the hyperthermal nonequilibrium processes, in concert with the subject matter of this book. 

In dealing with the subject matter of this book, solid samples, the term sample pretreatment is used to refer to the step whereby the analytes are isolated from the whole matrix and placed in — usually — a solution. 

The subject matter of this book is the response that polymers exhibit when they are subjected to external forces of various kinds. Almost without exception, polymers belong to a class of substances known as viscoelastic bodies. As the name implies, these materials respond to external forces in a manner intermediate between the behavior of an elastic solid and a viscous liquid. To set the stage for what follows, it is necessary to describe in very general terms the types of force to which the viscoelastic bodies are subjected. 

The subject matter of this book represents a major segment of chemical industry and a growing segment of the chemical curriculum in academia. Reflecting the interest of both industry and academia in the topics, the authors and editors of this volume are affiliated with industry, academia, or both. It is hoped that this book will find use by students and teachers in... 

Membrane-based reactive separation (otherwise also known as membrane reactor) processes, which constitute the subject matter of this book, are a special class of the broader field of membrane-based separation processes. In this introduction we will first provide a general and recent overview on membranes and membrane-based separation processes. The goal is to familiarize those of our readers, who are novice in the membrane field, with some of the basic concepts and definitions. A more complete description on this topic, including various aspects of membrane synthesis can be obtained from a number of comprehensive books and reviews that have already been published in this area [1.1, 1.2, 1.3,... 

G. N. Lewis ideas of atoms and bonds with the classical structural theory. The result of this alliance is a structural theory whose fundamental concepts are valence electrons and atomic kernels. This electronic structural theory, and its application to organic chemistry, is the subject matter of this book. 

The subject matter of this book COATINGS ON GLASS includes a wealth of information for physicists, chemists and engineers who need to know more about thin films for research purposes, or who want to use this special form of solid material to achieve a variety of application-oriented goals. 

We have been gratified by the warm reception of our book, by reviewers, colleagues, and students alike. Our interest in the subject matter of this book has not decreased since its first appearance on the contrary. The first and second editions envelop eight other symmetry-related books in the creation of which we have participated ... 

The purpose of this chapter is to review some basic statistical concepts. Statistical calculation and algorithms are not covered since, as has already been explained, they do not form part of the subject matter of this book. I shall, however, attempt an illustration of the nature of an important divide in statistics that between Bayesian or subjectivist statistics on the one hand and classical or frequentist on the other. 

The production of this book has been the outcome of many hours of discussions over the years. The two coauthors have learned a great deal from each other as well as from our many colleagues, students, and friends. An incomplete list of the most important people to whom we owe debts of gratitude would include Mike Barcelona, Michael Elovitz, Bruce Faust, Chad Jafvert, Karen Marley, Gary Peyton, Frank Scully, Alan Stone, Paul Tratnyek, Lee Wolfe, Ollie Zafiriou, and Richard Zepp. Invaluable help with the manuscript was provided by Jean Clarke, Tori Corkery, Jennifer Nevius, and Heather Walsh. Finally, special thanks are due to the students of Environmental Studies 351 at the University of Illinois, who have provided indispensable suggestions about the subject matter of this book over the years. 

The controls that are not given by optimal control laws are often called open-loop controls. They simply are functions of independent variables and specific to the initial system state. The application of open-loop controls is termed open loop control, which is the subject matter of this book. 

Polymers obtained from natural products or from their immediate derivatives such as vegetable oil, modified epoxidised oils, transesterified oils, heated oil, monoglyceride and diethanol amide or fatty acids of vegetable oils, cashew nut seed liquid (CNSL) and derivatised polymers, are bioderived polymers. " The details of vegetable oil-based polymers are the subject matter of this book and hence are discussed in detail in subsequent chapters. 

Polymers have been used since the 19th century in paint manufacture and other applications, but during the last decade, investigation into vegetable oil-based polymers " has been directed towards other purposes. Since the onset of the petroleum shortage, the preparation of polymers from renewable sources has become indispensible. These have been used as the source materials for many industrially important polymers and resins, the details of which are the subject matter of this book. 

Broadly speaking, nucleophilicity correlates with reduction potential. Thus, stronger reducing agents tend to make better nucleophiles, which makes sense because both properties are related to electron donation. The correlation, however, is best limited to a set of structurally closely related nueleophiles. For a broader correlation, Edwards and Ritchie proposed an oxibase scale, which afforded a linear correlation of the reactivity of a nucleophile with the reduction potential of its oxidized form and the of its conjugate acid. Although space doesn t permit a more detailed discussion of this scale, redox potentials are broadly important for the subject matter of this book. 

In this chapter, we tried to present an overview of the properties of uranium (the element, isotopes, and main compounds) that are relevant to the subject matter of this book. An understanding of the industrial aspects of uranium processing, and especially its role in the NFC, is essential in order to appreciate the ways uranium affects our lives. We also tried to briefly discuss the main analytical techniques that are used in the characterization of uranium, whether as a major component, a minor component, or a trace in environmental and biological samples. A detailed description of the analytical techniques will be given in the following chapters. 

This is the subject matter of this book. It is believed that the incorporation of such agents in polymer formulations will play an important part in the development of polymers with improved properties, which will play a very important part in the development of applications of plastic material in engineering. 

The subject-matter of this book has been strictly confined to the empirical interpretation of infra-red spectra. No attempt has been made to cover the many related aspects of practical spectroscopy. 

The non-rubber components not only have a biological function but also influence both the methods of coagulation to form dry rubber and also the techniques of latex technology. These matters have been discussed at length elsewhere (e.g. Blackley, 1966) and do not form part of the subject matter of this book. Where, however, the nonrubber constituents can affect the reactivity of the rubber molecule, this will be considered at the appropriate point. 

Although there are some excellent texts on aspects of rubber science both in book form and in the Rubber Reviews published in association with the journal Rubber Chemistry and Technology, there is, as far as the author is aware, no single text covering the subject matter of this book and it is his hope that, with the publication of this book, this deficiency will now be remedied. 

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