Table of Contents

Partial table of contents: Description of Chemical Structures. Polymorphism and Phase Diagrams. Structure, Energy and Chemical Bonding. The Effective Size of Atoms. Ionic Compounds. Molecular Structures 2: Compounds of Transition Metals. The Element Structures of the Nonmetals. Diamond-like Structures. Sphere Packings: Metal Structures. The Sphere Packing Principle for Compounds. Linked Polyhedra. Physical Properties of Solids. Symmetry. References. Answers to the Problems. Index.