Inorganic Reactions in Water, Springer (2007), 3540739610.pdf

anic Reactions in Water
First edition
Ronald L. Rich

anic Reactions in Water

First edition

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Dr. Ronald L. Rich
Bluffton University
112 S. Spring St.
Bluffton OH 45817-1112
USA
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Dedicated to my mentor Henry Taube
1915–2005
for supreme encouragement and example
in both science and ethics,
for whom Nature often had to make sense.
“You can learn a lot from test-tube chemistry.”
Nobel Prize 1983
Preface
Water as a solvent, and the reactions in it, are supremely important in many fields.
The excitement of newer fields of chemistry, however, has pushed these reactions
down the list of priorities for providing convenient reference works. This excite-
ment has often made “test-tube chemistry” seem to be passé.
The Japanese word kagaku for chemistry can