electrolyte

Question:
One might expect that I could find this myself but it might help me
considerably if someone at ANL was expert here and could find me stuff
almost off the top of his/her head. My doctoral thesis (1961) was on the
thermodynamics (heat of dilution) of strong electrolyte aqueous solutions.
Subsequent to that time I was shunted off into other areas (mostly edu-
cational rather than research) and totally lost contact with developments
in that field. I am now retired and would like to catch up here and see
what has happened in that field over the last 30 years. I know chemical
abstracts is the place to go but I would have to go all the way from the
northern suburbs to the U of C to use the library. I don't believe that
my contacts at NU would gain me access to the library there. Besides one
who was active in this field could probably direct me to good review art-
icles or books (at one time the Harned and Owen book was one of the best
references here.) Thanks much to whomever has any expertise here and can
get me started once again in this field. Fred Kasner

Answer 1:
Fred, you might be interested to know that most of the
scientists who answer questions here in the chemistry
section are NOT ANL scientists. I myself am on the faculty
at Cooper Union, in New York.

That said, you have to realize that this space is for
K-12 students and their teachers to ask chemistry questions,
and therefore this is not an appropriate place for your
question to receive a good answer.

Finally, you must admit that it's a little extreme to
ask someone to provide you with a review of 30 years of
literature... especially in responses of 25 lines or less,
the limit on NEWTON.

Good luck in your quest

prof topper
Answer 2:
If you're interested in theory, I'd say the most remarkable progress in
bulk electrolytes has been the development of good integral equation theory
and reliable computer simulation methods for them, Hansen & McDonald
("Theory of Simple Liquids") has some basic stuff. Eschew the CA dinosaur,
I'd say, and try looking up monographs on "Electrolytes" in your electronic
catalog (the UC catalog is online, telnet to libcat.uchicago.edu), or
looking through recent volumes of "Advances in Chemical Physics," or try
Current Contents online and look for some names: J.-P. Hansen has written a
lot on it. Recent good stuff has been the work of G. Patey (integral
equation theory, computer simulation), S. Nordholm (density functional), A.
Haymet (DFT, computer simulation). As for the library card, you don't
always need contacts: here at UC it's open to the public I believe at
certain hours. Check out NU!