Revised and updated (first edition, 1989), this thorough compilation presents the most comprehensive data-tables available to date for the thermodynamic properties of pure substances. The massive collection covers 2,400 pure substances, including 100 organic compounds as well as substances never before discussed in similar tables. The broad scope of thermochemical functions included ranges from heat capacity, entropy, and Gibbs energy function to enthalpy of formation and equilibrium constant of formation. The value of these functions is tabulated at intervals of 100 K, starting at room temperature, and going up to 5000 K. Combining all the well-established tabulations with a broad range of more recent publications, the compilation also introduces thermodynamics and describes the fundamental relations of chemical thermodynamics. Numerous examples illustrate the use of the tables. For metallurgical, ceramic, and chemical engineers. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

For the practical application of thermochemistry to the development and control of tech nical processes, the data for as many substances as possible are needed in conjunction with rapid and simple methods of calculating equilibrium constants, heat balances and the EMF of galvanic cells. For these three types of calculation the following three ther modynamic functions are suitable: The Planck function, the enthalpy and the Gibbs free energy, which are here defined and tabulated as unambigous functions of temperature for pure substances. The first edition of the tables was published in 1973 under the title "Thermochemical Properties of Inorganic Substances". The present supplementary volume contains the data and functions for a further 800 inorganic substances. In addition, the data for about 250 substances from the first volume have been up-dated. These usually small corrections produce better consistency with the data from more recent publications. The comments of users and reviewers of the first volume have largely been concerned with the difference between the present thermodynamic functions and the system used in the JANAF tables, the somewhat unconventional handling of heat balances adopted here, the notation of cell reactions, the description of non-stoichiometric phases and the accuracy of the tabulated data. To answer these questions and criticims the theore tical concepts and the practical use of the tables are dealt with in more detail in the introduction, following the recommendation of some reviewers.

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