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    <title>Physical chemistry : how chemistry works</title>
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    <namePart>Kolasinski, Kurt W.</namePart>
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    <publisher>John Wiley &amp; Sons</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2017</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xvii, 726p.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Introduction -- Statistical mechanics -- Ideal gases -- Non-ideal gases and intermolecular interactions -- Liquids, liquid crystals, and ionic liquids -- Solids, nanoparticles, and interfaces -- First law of thermodynamics -- Second law of thermodynamics -- Third law of thermodynamics and temperature dependence of heat capacity, enthalpy, and entropy -- Thermochemistry : the role of heat in chemical and physical changes -- Chemical equilibrium -- Phase stability and phase transitions -- Solutions and mixtures : nonelectrolytes -- Solutions of electrolytes -- Electrochemistry : the chemistry of free charge exchange -- Empirical chemical kinetics -- Reaction dynamics : mechanisms and rates -- Complex reactions mechanisms : catalysis, photochemistry and charge transfer -- Developing quantum mechanical intuition -- The quantum mechanical description of nature -- Model quantum systems -- Atomic structure -- Introduction to spectroscopy and atomic spectroscopy -- Molecular bonding and structure -- Molecular spectroscopy &amp; excited state dynamics : diatomics -- Polyatomic molecules and group theory -- Light-matter interactions : lasers, laser spectroscopy, and photodynamics.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">by Kurt W. Kolasinski</note>
  <note>Includes index.</note>
  <subject>
    <topic>Chemistry, Physical and theoretical</topic>
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  <classification authority="ddc" edition="22">541 K83P</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9781118751121</identifier>
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