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The "conatant-load" balance is discussed only briefly; its importance in industry merits a more extensive treatment. More illustrative problems on huffer systems are in order and the calibrat,ion of glassware could be treated more thoroughly without adding much length to tho book. I t is the opinion of the reviewer that one of the many valuable contributions that elementary qoantitative analysis can bring to the training of under-graduate chemi~ts is a. thorollgh understanding of buffer systems and their role in analytical chemir;try. This text is not as strong as it might be in this arm. All of the rearrangements and additions of material and the few expansions of discussions have improved the value of the book as a text for elementary quantitative analysis. Same chapters have new sets of problems while most. chapters retain prohlems from the previous edition. Problems have been added to cover the new rnsterial. Those teachers who found t,he tenth edition to their liking will find thin new edition equally attractive.
GLENNH. BROWN University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio Bmsic Principles of Experimental Chemistry
J . Rae Schwaek and Razinzond M. Martin, Department of Chemistry, Sacramento Junior College. PrentieeHall, h e . , Englewood Cliffs, N. J., 1958. vi 377 pp. 48 figs. 21.5 X 28 em. $3.95.
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Thi, lehoratolly ma;:ual is designed to accompany the text, Bmic Principles of Chemistry"; it followsthe same sequence as the teat. However, it can he used with other college teats. Since most of the experiments aro independent units, the order of performing them may be varied. Nearly every assignment is well illustrated wit,h excellent drawings and a clear procedure is given. Rofwencrs to texthaok maberial are given. The manual is divided into nine parts. Part I, Introductory Assignments, in. traduces the student to most of the basic procedures and concepts deemed funda. mental to a beginning course in collegr chemi~try. Psrt I1 presents quantitstivr experiments (an analysis of an alloy anc determinations of formulas) and experi. ments involving the propertiez of scvera of the elements. Part I11 includes furthci quantitative experiments involving thr gas lawn. Part IV deals with the liquic phase, solutions, and colloidn. I n P a r V chemical equilibria is treated as i separate unit. Oridstion-reduction reac tians, including electroehemistry, an studied in Part VI. I n Part VII a shor introduction to qualitative analysis il given; just enough to arouse curiosit: among the students and encourage then to develop their own procedures. Radio
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activity, devices, and techniques are oonsidered in a single assignment in Part V.--A. TTT
The final section on organic chemistry consists of three assignments. One is of a qualitative nature; another gives same representative preparations, and the third introduces some biological applications of organic chemistry. I n all assignments there are mite-in spaces; the pages are punched and perforated so that thereports may be rcmoved from the manual. CARLWEATHERBEE Millikin C:niuersity Decalur, Illinois Modern Elecfroanalytical Methods
Edited by G. Charlot. Elsevier Publishing Co., London, and D. Van Nostrand Go., Inc., Princeton, N. J., 1958. x 186 pp. 17 X 24.5 em. $4.95.
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A quick glance a t the jacket and cover of this new publication suggests that it may be comparable to Delahay's recent rnonogra.ph. Not until the title page is i t revealed to be the Proceedings of the I.U.P.A.C. Symposium an Elret,rachemieal Methods of Analysis. An identical compilation in less elegant cover can, of course, be found as issue Nos. 1 and 2 of Anal. Chim. Acta (1958). As a unit, t h e papers are of extreme interest to specialists in modern electroanalyticd techniques. I n some eases, e.g., the excellent report on fused-salt chronopotentiometry by Laitinen and Gaur, some degree of background introduction is included with the experimental work. I n others, only token reports are given since the work was puhli~hedpreviously elsewhere. The inclusion of discussions a t t h e end of each paper is stimulating. In short, this edition would sppesr t o he of value only t o those who neither suhscribe to Analytiea Chimica Acta nor believe in reprint request cards. RALPH N. ADAMS C'nit,ersiliq of Kansas Lawrenre. Kansas
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