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1. WATER AND ITS SOLVENT PROPERTIES. Introduction --
Liquid water --
2. LIQUID WATER AND THE HYDRATION OF IONS. The structure of liquid water --
Ions and their hydration --
Gibbs energies and enthalpies of formation of hydrated ions --
Standard molar enthalpies of hydration of ions --
The absolute value for the standard molar enthalpy of hydration of the proton --
Absolute values of the standard molar enthalpies of hydration of ions --
Standard molar entropies of hydration of ions --
3. ACIDS AND BASES; FORMS OF IONS IN AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ION HYDROLYSIS & COMPOUND SOLUBILITY. Acids and bases in aqueous solutions --
Brønsted and Lowry acids and bases --
pH and the pH scale --
Factors influencing acidic and basic behaviour in aqueous solutions --
Forms of ions in aqueous solution; hydrolysis --
Solubilities of ionic compounds in water --
4. THERMODYNAMICS AND ELECTRODE POTENTIALS. Changes in standard Gibbs energy and their relation to standard electrode potentials --
The hydrated electron and absolute values of reduction potentials --
5. THE STABILITIES OF IONS IN AQUEOUS SOLUTION. The limits of stability of ions in aqueous systems --
Latimer and Volt-equivalent (Frost) diagrams --
6. PERIODICITY OF AQUEOUS CHEMISTRY I: S- AND P-BLOCK CHEMISTRY. Periodicity of the ions formed by the s- and p-block elements --
The detailed aqueous chemistry of the s- and p-block elements --
Summary of the s- and p-block periodicity --
7. PERIODICITY OF AQUEOUS CHEMISTRY II: D-BLOCK CHEMISTRY. The ions formed by the transition elements --
Enthalpies of hydration of some transition element cations --
Variations in the enthalpies of hydration of the +2 and +3 ions of the transition elements --
Variations of ionic forms and redox behaviour across the first series of transition elements --
General redox chemistry of the d-block elements --
8. PERIODICITY OF AQUEOUS CHEMISTRY III: F-BLOCK CHEMISTRY. The lanthanides --
The actinides --
Answers to problems --
Subject index.