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List of new material and changes: Summary of Chapter 5new section: rate constants with microcanonical temperaturenew section: Larger fragmentsnew section: quantum statistics effect in electron emissionNew section: Kinetic energy release split into two sections Chapter 6New chapter: Radiation, one section from previous chapter 5,one new section on infrared radiation. Chapter 7New section: Kinetic energy release in the evaporative ensemble New section: Radiative cooling in the evaporative ensemble Chapter 8The chapter on abundances will be expanded to include a better treatment of nu- cleation, including different kernels for the Smoluchowski equation, the gelation transition, and exact and asymptotic solutions. Material on nucleation theorem will be add Chapter 9New section split off, plus some new material in section: Thermostats in MD simulations Chapter 10New section: Magnetism New chapter 11Hot electron reactions Chapter 13New section Solid-to-solid phase transition The changes relative to the first edition are of two types. One is expansion of the scope of the material covered. The expansions of chapters 6, 8, 9, 10, 13 belong to that category.The other type is the introduction of new developments in the matter. This is the main motivation for the additions to chapters 5, 7, 11. There have been numerous minor changes, also in the chapters not listed above. Numerical summary 2nd (1st) editions Tables 8 (5) Figures 102 (80) Exercises 125 (74) Equations 1276 (922)