1. A very comprehensive review of the growth of oxide films at high temperatures, including theory, mechanisms and representative experimental results with extensive bibliography, is presented by A. Atkinson, Rev. Mod. Phys., 57, 437(1985). An English version of the original German text by K. Hauffe, Oxidation of Metals Plenum Press, 1965, is a very useful standard reference in this field. Another more concise treatment of reactions between solids and gases is that of H. Schmalzried in his book Solid State Reactions Chemie Verlag, 1981, chapter 8.
2. Two compilations of articles on sintering that are good general references are G. C. Kuczynski, N. A. Hooten and C. F. Gibbon, Eds. Sintering, Gordon & Breach, 1967. W. D. Kingery, Ed., Kinetics of High Temperature Processes, The Technology Press, MIT, 1959.
3. A textbook that treats sintering in passing but is a very good and complete handling of thermodynamic, kinetic, and defect properties of refractory materials is Introduction to Ceramics by W. D. Kingery, John Wiley and Sons, 1960.
4. Precipitation is treated by M. F. Fine, Phase Transformations in Condensed Systems, Macmillan, 1964. Also by J. Burke, Kinetics of Phase Transformations in Metals, Pergamon Press, 1965, chapters 5, 6, and 7. A more concise treatment of precipitation and associated phenomena is given by H. Schmalzried, Solid State Reactions, Chemie Verlag, 1981, 153–159.
5. Compilations of unrelated papers dealing with all sorts of solid state reactions written by experts in their respective fields are the conference proceedings, J. H. de Boer, Ed., Reactivity of Solids, Elsevier, 1961. J. S. Anderson, M. W. Roberts and F. S. Stone, Eds., Reactivity of Solids, Chapman and Hall, 1972.