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Preface
of the successive drafts, updating the NEA Thermodynamic Database and editing the
book in its present final form.
Primary responsibility for the different chapters was divided as follows. James
Sangster and Surendra Saxena assessed the thermodynamic properties of solid and
gaseous compounds, while Wolfgang Voigt, Tamás Gajda and Heinz Gamsjäger were
in charge of the aqueous chemistry. Surendra Saxena drafted the sections on solid
oxides, hydrides, halides, pnictides and selected minerals. James Sangster prepared the
sections on elemental tin, gaseous compounds of all groups and solid compounds not
treated by Surendra Saxena. Tamás Gajda drafted the sections on hydrolysis of Sn(II)
and Sn(IV) and the sections on aqueous Sn(II) and Sn(IV) complexes. Wolfgang Voigt
prepared the sections on solubilities of all groups. The chairman drafted the sections on
simple aqua ions and those on solubilities of Sn(II) as well as Sn(IV) oxides and
hydroxides. The key values for Sn(IV) which were lacking prompted close co-operation
of the solution chemistry group. This contributed favourably to the final solution of the
problem and to the quality of the solution chemistry section.
It is worth noting that the selection of key values, e.g., for Sn 2+ , revealed gaps
in our knowledge which may stimulate rewarding projects on the experimental
thermodynamics of tin compounds.
Leoben, Austria, May 2012
Heinz Gamsjäger, Chairman
CHEMICAL THERMODYNAMICS OF TIN, ISBN 978-92-64-99206-1, © OECD 2012