J Donald RimstidtJ. Donald Rimstidt is a Professor Emeritus of Geochemistry at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). During his 30-year career there he has taught several graduate courses, including Aqueous Geochemistry, Environmental Gochemistry, Geochemical Kinetics, and Geochemical Thermodynamics. The effective pedagogic methods from those courses, for building quantitative skills and instructing modelling techniques, underlie this book. Professor Rimstidt is the author or co-author of more than 100 papers, including his seminal article 'Kinetics of Silica-Water Reactions' (with Hu Barnes, 1980) which forms the basis of the quasi-thermodynamic presentation of transition state theory presented in this book. Read More Read Less