Organized to facilitate reference to the reagents involved, this book describes the reactions of the elements and their mostly simpler compounds, primarily inorganic ones and primarily in water. It emphasizes the similarities and differences in actual chemical behavior, as opposed to electronic structures and theories, although not exclusively.

Inorganic Reactions in Water again makes available some of the more comprehensive coverage of descriptive aqueous chemistry found in older sources, but now corrected and interpreted with the added insights of the last seven decades. It also provides new information, including reactions of the recently discovered elements, plus some recent data on equilibria, often with mostly qualitative kinetic information, to interpret the redox and non-redox phenomena that complicate the chemistry of most elements in water.

Hydrogen and the Alkali Metals

Beryllium and the Alkaline-Earth Metals
The Rare-Earth and Actinoid Elements
Titanium through Rutherfordium
Vanadium through Dubnium
Chromium through Seaborgium
Manganese through Bohrium
Iron through Hassium
Cobalt through Meitnerium
Nickel through Darmstadtium
Copper through Roentgenium
Zinc through Mercury
Boron through Thallium, the Triels
Carbon through Lead, the Tetrels
Nitrogen through Bismuth, the Pentels
Oxygen through Polonium, the Chalcogens
Fluorine through Astatine, the Halogens
Helium through Radon, the Aerogens.