Contents of this monograph include an examination of the state of the art, and also a comprehensive review of the extended process (continuing for some 50 years) through which this branch of science came into being and continued to grow. Topics include: equilibrium and disjoining pressure of thin interlays; required conditions and kinetics of irreversible coagulation; free energy of charged particles in electrolyte solution. No index. Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews. com) | Theory of Stability of Colloids and Thin Films by B V Derjaguin, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters