0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Browse All Departments
  • All Departments
Price
  • R2,500 - R5,000 (1)
  • -
Status
Brand

Showing 1 - 1 of 1 matches in All Departments

The Properties of Water and their Role in Colloidal and Biological Systems, Volume 16 (Hardcover): Carel Jan Van Oss The Properties of Water and their Role in Colloidal and Biological Systems, Volume 16 (Hardcover)
Carel Jan Van Oss
R4,835 Discovery Miles 48 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book treats the different current as well as unusual and hitherto often unstudied physico-chemical and surface-thermodynamic properties of water that govern all polar interactions occurring in it. These properties include the hyper-hydrophobicity of the water-air interface, the cluster formation of water molecules in the liquid state and the concomitant variability of the ratio of the electron-accepticity to electron-donicity of liquid water as a function of temperature, T. The increase of that ratio with T is the cause of the increase in hydration repulsion ("hydration pressure") between polar surfaces upon heating, when they are immersed in water.
The book also treats the surface properties of apolar and polar molecules, polymers, particles and cells, as well as their mutual interaction energies, when immersed in water, under the influence of the three prevailing non-covalent forces, i.e., Lewis acid-base (AB), Lifshitz-van der Waals (LW) and electrical double layer (EL) interactions. The polar AB interactions, be they attractive or repulsive, typically represent up to 90% of the total interaction energies occurring in water. Thus the addition of AB energies to the LW + EL energies of the classical DLVO theory of energy vs. distance analysis makes this powerful tool (the Extended DLVO theory) applicable to the quantitative study of the stability of particle suspensions in water. The influence of AB forces on the interfacial tension between water and other condensed-phase materials is stressed and serves, inter alia, to explain, measure and calculate the driving force of the hydrophobic attraction between such materials (the "hydrophobic effect"), when immersed in water. Thesephenomena, which are typical for liquid water, influence all polar interactions that take place in it. All of these are treated from the viewpoint of the properties of liquid water itself, including the properties of advancing freezing fronts and the surface properties of ice at 0o C.
- Explains and allows the quantitative measurement of hydrophobic attraction and hydrophilic repulsion in water
- Measures the degree of cluster formation of water molecules
- Discusses the influence of temperature on the cluster size of water molecules
- Treats the multitudinous effects of the hyper-hydrophobicity of the water-air interface

Free Delivery
Pinterest Twitter Facebook Google+
You may like...
Fighting For The Dream
R.W. Johnson Paperback  (3)
R583 Discovery Miles 5 830
Honey For Dummies
M Marchese Paperback R529 R491 Discovery Miles 4 910
Farm Killings In South Africa
Nechama Brodie Paperback R355 R333 Discovery Miles 3 330
Whiteness, Afrikaans, Afrikaners…
Various Paperback R1,148 Discovery Miles 11 480
A Sermon Preach'd at St. James's, on…
John Robinson Paperback R312 Discovery Miles 3 120
The Works of Symon Patrick - Including…
Simon Patrick Paperback R789 Discovery Miles 7 890
The Friendly Call of Truth and Reason to…
Edward Barry Paperback R443 Discovery Miles 4 430
The Gospel of Matthew - an Exposition
Arno Clemens Gaebelein Paperback R563 Discovery Miles 5 630
How-To Hydroponics - The Complete Guide…
Sebastian Moore Hardcover R781 R681 Discovery Miles 6 810
Different Coins in the Fountain - Volume…
Carlos V Cornejo Hardcover R745 Discovery Miles 7 450

 

Partners