This vo1ume contains all the papers presented at the 8th International Symposium on the Reactivity of Solids. The Symposium, the 1a test of aseries started in 1948, was held at Cha1mers University of Techno10gy, Goteborg, Sweden, between June 14th and June 19, 1976. This was the second occasion on which a symposium in this series had been held in Goteborg. On the first occasion, in 1952, the Symposium was arranged by Professor J. Arvid Hedva11, the pioneering scientist in the fie1d of Solid State Chemistry, Profes- sor at Cha1mers University since 1929 and one of those responsib1e for...