Part 1: Introduction 1. The Impact of Metal Oxide Dissolution in Technology and Environmental Science 2. Bulk and Surface Structures of Metal Oxides 3. The Thermodynamics of Solubility Part 2: Phenomenological Approach to Metal Oxide Dissolution 4. Experimental Methodologies 5. Kinetic Regimes 6. Quantitative Treatment of Rate Data 7. The Morphology of Dissolution PART III: Fundamentals of Metal Oxide Dissolution Mechanisms 8. Basic Principles of Surface-Controlled Processes 9. Ionic Oxides 10. Semiconducting Oxides 11. Covalent Oxides PART 4: Review of Selected Cases 12. Divalent Oxides 13. Iron Oxides 14. Chromium Oxides 15. Uranium Oxides 16. Silicon Dioxide, Aluminium Oxides, and Aluminosilicates 17. Dissolution of Mixed Oxides