An Introduction to Crystal Chemistry

First published in 1964, as the second edition of a 1939 original, this well-known textbook presents the fundamental principles of crystal chemistry.

R. C. Evans (Author)

9780521093675, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 1 January 1964

424 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.62 kg

First published in 1964, as the second edition of a 1939 original, this well-known textbook presents the fundamental principles of crystal chemistry at a level that was suitable for undergraduate students of chemistry, physics, metallurgy, mineralogy and related subjects at the time of its publication. The first part deals with the general principles of crystal architecture in terms of predominant types of binding forces between the atoms themselves. There are chapters on atomic structure, and the ionic, covalent, metallic and van der Waals bonds. The second part contains a discussion of systematic crystal chemistry in which the physical and chemical properties of crystalline substances are related to their structures.

Some important figures and tables
Preface
Part I. General Principles of Crystal Architecture: 1. Introduction
2. Interatomic binding forces and atomic structure
3. The ionic bond and some ionic structures
4 The covalent bond and some covalent structures
5. The metallic bond and the structures of some metallic elements
6. The van der Waals bond
Part II. Systematic Crystal Chemistry: 7. The elements
8. The structures of some simple compounds
9. Some structural principles
10. Structures containing complex ions I
11. Structures containing complex ions II
12. The structures of some compounds containing hydrogen
13. Alloy systems
14. Organic structures
Appendices
Index.

Subject Areas: Materials science [TGM]