1. What is Colloid Science? --; 2. Classification of Colloid Systems --; 3. Crystal Chemistry of Silicates --; 4. Water --; References --; 1 Some Geologic Colloid Systems --; 1. Mineralogy of Colloids in the Sedimentary Cycle --; 2. Soils and Sediments as Colloid Systems --; 3. Fluidized Beds --; 4. Magma as a Colloid System --; 5. Colloid Systems in Volcanic Eruptions --; 6. The Ocean as a Colloid System --; 7. The Atmosphere as a Colloid System --; References --; 2 Physical Chemistry of Surfaces --; 1. Thermodynamics of Heterogeneous Systems --; 2. Liquid Surface --; 3. Sorption --; 4. Electrochemistry of Heterogeneous Systems --; References --; 3 Formation of Aqueous Solutions and Suspensions of Hydrophobic Colloids --; 1. Condensation Process (Formation of New Phases) --; 2. Dispersion Process --; References --; 4 Surface Coatings on Rocks and Grains of Minerals --; 1. Incongruent Dissolution of Silicates --; 2. Sorption from Aqueous Solutions onto Mineral Surfaces --; 3. Alteration of Minerals by Abrasion --; 4. Surface Structures of Gibbsite and Goethite --; References --; 5 Kinetic Properties of Colloid Solutions --; 1. Kinetic Properties of Particles Dispersed in Still Fluids --; 2. Kinetic Properties of Particles in Flowing Fluids --; References --; 6 Colloid Geochemistry of Silica --; 1. Surface Chemistry of Silica --; 2. Silica in Aqueous Solutions --; References --; 7 Colloid Geochemistry of Clay Minerals --; 1. Functional Groups on Clay Minerals and Ion Exchange Reactions --; 2. Interaction Between Clay Minerals and Organic Compounds --; 3. Solubility of Clay Minerals --; 4. Environmental Effects on Clay Mineralogy --; References --; 8 Interaction Between Solid Particles Dispersed in Colloid Systems --; 1. Interaction Between Solid Particles Dispersed in a Gaseous Phase --; 2. Aggregation of Particulate Matter in the Hydrosphere --; 3. Soil Aggregates --; References --; 9 Rheology of Colloid Systems --; 1. Flow Behavior of Suspensions --; 2. Rheology of Dispersions in the Hydrosphere --; 3. Rheology of Sediments of Silicate Minerals --; 4. Viscosity of Magmas --; References --; 10 Colloid Geochemistry of Argillaceous Sediments --; 1. Microstructure of Argillaceous Sediments --; 2. Aging and Diagenetic Alteration of Smectites in Argillaceous Sediments --; 3. Surface Chemistry of Solutes Flow Through Argillaceous Sediments --; 4. Diagenesis of Organic Matter and Oil Generation in Argillaceous Sediments --; References --; Author Index --; Mineral Index.
Colloid science has been applied by soil chemists and clay mineralƯ ogists for many years, and some of the most important studies on the behavior of colloids have been contributed by them. Barring a few notable exceptions, only in the last decade have geochemists applied colloid science in their research and in this period much work has been published. It seemed to the authors that it would be useful at this stage to attempt to summarize the progress made and to try to examine what colloid science has contributed and can further contribute to geoƯ chemistry. This book is based partly on a course of the same title given to graduate students by one of the authors (S.Y) between 1972 and 1977 at the Department of Geology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Consequently many fundamental concepts of the subject are included that will be of use to graduate students in geology, geoƯ chemistry, soil science, and oceanography. So that specialists interested in certain sections may find their subjects comprehensively covered, a few topics are dealt with in more than one chapter so that readers may ignore sections not especially of interest to them. However the chapters more fully treating certain topics are cross-referenced. In such cases the subjects are treated from different viewpoints and the citations used represent these difƯ fering viewpoints.