The Concise Encyclopedia of The Chemical Properties of Materials presents a
custom collection of articles from the award-winning Encyclopedia of Materials
Science and Technology (EMSAT), and includes updates and revisions not available
in the original set.
The chemical properties discussed in EMSAT which have selected for the present
volume include production and refining processes (principally for metallic
materials, but also the processes of polymerization), the thermodynamics and
kinetics of phase equilibria, electrochemical reactions and gas-solid reactions.
An important example of the latter process is oxidation and corrosion, and a
majority of the articles included are concerned with the kinetics, themodynamics
and mechanisms of corrosion (including stress corrosion) in