Water. A Matrix of Life
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Author(s): F. Franks
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
ISBN: 085404583X
Format: softback
225pp
Price: £18.95
Review Date: 18 August 2000
Review: This book brings the reader up to date with the present scientific knowledge of water - its properties, its influence on dissolved substances, and its role in the life sciences and ecology. It covers water in its liquid and crystalline forms; aqueous solutions of simple molecules, electrolytes and polar molecules as well as chemical reactions in aqueous solutions. Water quality, its usage and management world-wide, its availability, economics and politics are also covered.