Download or read book The Chemical Bond in Inorganic Chemistry written by Ian David Brown and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2002 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bond valence model is a recently developed model of the chemical bond in inorganic chemistry that complements the bond model widely used in organic chemistry. It is simple, quantitative, intuitive, and predictive - no more than a pocket calculator is needed to calculate it. This book focuses on the theory that underlies the model, and shows how it has been used in physics, materials science, chemistry, mineralogy, soil science, and molecular biology.