Kevin's Glossary: Chemistry

Kevin's Glossary: Chemistry
by Bravo, Dino
published in 2003 (ebook in 2010)
ISBN 8185771731, 9788185771731

The project of compiling a glossary of terms in Chemistry was started in 1995 on request of the International Sectors of Chemistry. It was felt that in such a rapidly growing, interdisciplinary field, communication would be greatly facilitiated by standardization of terminology.

Example of the entries:

Acidity : For Brønsted acids it means the tendency of a compound to act as a hydron donor. It can be quantitatively expressed by the acid dissociation constant of the compound in water or some other specified medium. For Lewis acids it relates to the association constants of Lewis adducts and pi-adducts. (2) Of a medium: The use of the term is mainly restricted to a medium containing Brønsted acids, where it means the tendency of the medium to hydronate a specific reference base. It is quantitatively expressed by the appropriate acidity function.