Table of Contents

Preface
1: Historical introduction
2: The flux theory of the chemical bond
3: The bond valence model
4: Cation coordination number
5: Hydrogen bonds
6: Liquids
7: Electronically distorted structures
8: Physical properties of bonds
9: Space and space groups
10: Modelling inorganic structures
11: Steric strain
12: Applications
13: Chemical implications
App. 1: Bond valence parameters
App. 2: Space group spectra
App. 3: Refcodes
App. 4: Glossary

About the Author

David Brown is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Reviews

`Review from previous edition A highly readable book about a theory that, though it has long found application in inorganic crystal chemistry, deserves to be used more widely.
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Crystallography News
`Neatly crystallizes concepts, precisely defines these concepts and brings to the fore many phenomena that can be described by the bond-valence model.'
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