Twenty years ago author Kurt Stern produced four monographs for the National Bureau of Standards on the high-temperature properties of inorganic salts containing oxyanions. Although relied upon by scientists and engineers around the world, these monographs have now become increasingly difficult to access and increasingly outdated.High Temperature Properties and Thermal Decomposition of Inorganic Salts with Oxyanions unifies, expands upon, and brings up-to-date those standard-setting documents. It offers both qualitative and quantitative information on the behavior and properties of approximately 300 compounds, complete with thermodynamic tables of decomposition equilibria and information regarding decomposition kinetics. For each class of compounds, an existence chart in the form of a periodic table tells you at a glance which compounds are known to exist, those whose existence is uncertain, and those about which nothing is known. Supplementary tables give information about phase transitions and densities in both solid and liquid phases.Within this single volume, the author provides a comprehensive, critical review of the high-temperature properties of all the major classes of inorganic salts with oxyanions. If you work with materials or processes that involve salts at elevated temperatures, you now have an authoritative resource that obviates the need to perform extensive literature searches, data evaluations, and thermodynamic calculations-and saves you time.

Dr. Kurt H. Stern obtained his B.A. degree in chemistry from Drew University in Madison, NJ in 1948, his M.S. degree in physical chemistry from the University of Michigan in 1950, and a Ph.D. from Clark University under Prof. Arthur Martell in 1953. He then joined the faculty of the University of Arkansas. In 1959, while spending a sabbatical year at the National Bureau of Standards in Washington, he was asked to join the staff and to start a program in molten salt electrochemistry. While at NBS he became involved in the formation of the National Standards Reference Data Program. In 1969 he moved to the Naval Research Laboratory where he continued his research. He retired from active research in 1991