المصدر: The Kinetics of Chemical Change في منتدى : قسم الكيمياء بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم The Kinetics of Chemical Change By C.N., M.A., Sc.D., F.R.S. Hinshelwood Publisher Clarendon Number Of Pages Publication Date: 1940-01-01 ISBN-10 / ASIN: B004BJ9K02 ISBN-13 / EAN: PREFACE THE first edition of the Kinetics of Chemical Change in fjaaewj Systems appeared in 1926, and was at the time a fairly complete monograph of at least part of the field. The second and third editions were progressively larger and less complete. To-day a fourth edition which attempted any kind of comprehensiveness would have to be an encyclopaedic volume of formidable dimensions. It is no mere taste for paradox which leads one to doubt whether progress in a subject is reflected only in the increasing size of the books written about it. Encyclopaedias are very valuable works, but in some ways the ideal would be that successive editions of a book should get smaller and smaller. A lot depends upon whom the book is written for, and to cut the Gordian knot I decided instead of a fourth edition to produce a new book which, without very great detail, should give as simple and balanced account as possible of the general principles of chemical kinetics. It is, of course, written for any one who cares to read it, but primarily for' those who are interested in the wider aspects of physical chemistry and who want to know, as serious students though not as experts, what the general landscape of a particular part of the country is like. If the treatment is in places impressionistic, I hope it is so in the better sense which would allow a painting to be not less true than a photograph. At any rate I believe that the shortcomings are in the execution rather than in the method. The examples discussed are no longer drawn exclusively from re- actions in the gaseous state though these predominate. Convenience rather than abstract justice has dictated their selection, and, indeed, lest the author index be regarded as a minor temple of fame in which representation has been granted or withheld with too arbitrary a hand, I have omitted it. Just as in the third edition of the former book I included a section which developed the wave mechanics needed in the later discussions, so in the present book I have included a chapter on elementary statistical mechanics, in which most of the kinetic and statistical theory used in the rest of the treatment is specially worked out for the purpose. This seems worth while for clearness and sim- plicity, and indeed for abstract uniformity, since kinetic and statistical theory is the very stuff of which chemical kinetics is made LinK or
