amazingly wide variety of compounds are thoroughly discussed with the wealth of data being presented in numerical form, in tables, and as spectra. References are always given. There is also a brief chapter on qnantitative analysis and one on miscellaneous topirs. In an appendix there are some remarks on the teaching of infrared spectroscopy, suggestions for a few experiments and a. set of problems. One of the most praisewort,hy features uf the book is the more than 2500 references tc, everything from textbooks to msnnfarf~u~rers' bulletins from the litenture of a t least fifteen countries. The citations extend into 1962 hut not far enough to include ment,ion of the work on the noble gas halides. The author has not been completely surcessRd in his aim "to survey as completely as possible the chemical applicat,ions of infrared spectroscopy" because of his narrow interpretat,ion of the term "chemical applications." He gives practieally no discussion of those aspects of infrared spectroscopy connected with mo-
rotation spectra. In summary, thia hook, with its extensive coverage and excellent hihliography, should have a wide appeal to the many chemists who are interested in structural correlstionn.
JAMES CURRY Williams College Williamslown. Massachusetts
Analytische Anwendungen won lonenauslaurchern
J6nos Incaddy, Technical TTniversitjr Budapest. Publishing House of the Hungarian Academy, Budapest, 1964. 365 pp. Figs. and tables. 17.5 X 24.5 cm. 88.40. This book is a revised German translstinn of the 1962 Hungarian original. About one third uf the hook is devoted to fundnmentsls and the remainder to labni-atory practice and applications. The author has conlpiled s. rather complete and wund treatise which is remarkably up to date. The presentation is well halaneed. The approach in general is not overly imaginative nor lively, hut this minar deficiency is more than compensated by the meticulous care and the impres~ive amount of his own experimental work which have gone into the preparation of the book. The discussion is well documented with aver a thousand references, mostly from the period 1950 to 1962. The t,ranslatian is technically excellent and not too complicated in style, so that the user having a modest commend of (:erman should find the hook readable. While having succeeded in presenting an authoritative account, the author has not broken new ground. The ion-exchange expert will not find facts, theories, or techniques of which he had not been aware, with the possible exception of the aot,hor2s own recent work on methods
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utilizing oxidiltion-reduction reactions in ion-exchange columns. In the first four chapters dincussing preparation, properties, and physical chemistry the author has wisely selected what the user may find helpful and has avoided unnecessary details. The reviewer was moved when seeing with how much confidenre the aut,har, in various places, h a closely adhered to the treatment in the reviewer's hook ("Ionenaustauseher," \'erlag Chenrie, Weinheim/ Bergstr., 1950) oaoasionnlly foll
