Each of the sections is divided into several parts. In turn, each part contains one to three chapters. Every chapter has unsolved problems and questions at the end. The first part, which includes the first two chapters, is an overview of water chemistry with a focus on mineral solubility. This information is similar to that found in the typical water chemistry texts on the market.
Subjects covered include acidlbase reactions, solubility, and ion complexation.
The next part covers soil minerals and chemistry in two chapters. Included are mineralogy, charge relationships, sorption, exchange, traditional isotherms, and surface complexation modeling. Electrochemistry and Kinetics is the title of the third part, containing three chapters. The latter chapter discusses traditional rate laws with applications toward mineral dissolution, homogeneous and heterogeneous redox reactions, and enzyme kinetics. Between these two is a chapter on pyrite oxidation chemistry.