Materials Engineering : Bonding, Structure, and Structure-Property Relationships (Hardcover)

1. Introduction to bonding, structure, and structure-property relations; 2. Raw materials; 3. Chemical bonding and electronegativity; 4. Hardness, melting points and boiling points; 5. Planes, directions, and morphology; 6. Crystal systems and theoretical density; 7. Symmetry, point groups, and stereographic projections; 8. Covalent crystals; 9. Ionic crystals; 10. Metallic crystals; 11. Molecular crystals; 12. Polymers; 13. Pauling's rules, bond valence, and structure-field maps; 14. Crystal field theory; 15. Solid solutions and phase diagrams; 16. Defects; 17. Gases and liquids; 18. Glasses; 19. Silica and silicates; 20. Phase transformations; 21. Cement; 22. Surface properties; 23. Neumann's law and tensor properties; 24. Thermal properties; 25. Diffusion and ionic conductivity; 26. Electrical conductivity; 27. Optical properties; 28. Dielectrics and ferroelectrics; 29. Magnetism; 30. Mechanical properties; Appendix A. Crystallographic symbols; Appendix B. Shannon?Prewitt ionic radii.