number of articles is devoted to subjects deemed to require a more ocoasional treatment. Thus, the four topics mentioned last above replace topics appearing in the previous volume of the series (electrode processes, combustion and flames, proteins, and bond energies). It appears from the prospectus that they in turn will be replaxed in volume 10 by review8 dealing with photosynthesis, stabilized free radicals, high temperature chemistry, and proteins and polypeptides. A more complete coverage is thus attempted. Even with such policy, the rapid advance taking place in most fields, including new developments as well as the relationships between different topics, makes extensive coverage a difficult task. Reviewers have been left free to he predominantly guided by their main interests, and some have limited themselves to some aspect of their fields. To mention only two instances, the artirle on solutions of electrolytes pays particular attention to eloctrolytio conductance and the one on physied organic chemistry deds mostly with the effects of structure on reactivity. The reviews are written b y specialists, and mostly intended for specialists in the field or in closely related ones. They vary considerably from author to author in their critioal approach, but all have maintained the high standards set h y the previous volumes in the series. The reviewer has profited greatly from the reading of these articles dealing with topics in which he is particularly interested and helieves that the present volume, like the previous ones, should be readily xcresnihle to any worker in the field.
Chemical Engineering Practice. Volume 4 Edited by Hmbe~tW . C m r and Trefor Davis. Academic Press, Inc., New York, 1958. v i 623 xix pp., Many figs. and tables. 16.5 X 25 cm. 817.50.
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Volume 4 of "Chemical Engineering Practice" carries t h e subtitle "Fluid State," hut the descriptive leaflet says it is devoted t o Chemical Engineering Operetionfi and Processes Involving Fluid Systems-Part I. Thinking in terms of unit operations it might he inferred t h a t here was the hook devoted t o fluid flow. This u.ould not be an illogical guess hased on the desoriptiona of equipment and processes for orushing, grinding, and separation given in the preceding volume on the "Solid State." Actually the first third of this volume in an excellent exposition of thermodynamics applied to physical systems. I t has been prepared by Dr. Strickland-Constable of the Univemity of London. H e first reviews the first and second laws of thermodynamics, develops chemical potential as the oriterion for equilibrium in a. system, and derives general thermodynamic relationships. The next one hundred pages
had only the standard chemistry courses. me used to discuss the thermodynamic However, the first three sections (General properties of pure substances and mixtn~ts. Principles, Phynicsl Chemiatry, and Types Formulas for work of compression and exof Coenzymes and Enzymes) should he pansion are then derived (look out! P understandable to senior majors without is t h e work function and G is t h e Gihhs special preparation. The large number function). This same chapter includes of references included in each chapter will "sum and diflerenee properties" and dishelp meet the need for a more complete cusses the lever rule, triangular diagrams, treatment for advanced workere. The)liquid-liquid extraction, and distillation provide a good introduction ta the litercalculations. After this thorough and ature- dealing with most topics of enzyme fundamental background, t h e banie q u a chemistry. tions of Huid flow are derived. The group of chapters on fluid hehavior DONALD A. TARE are hv Dr. Franklin of the A.E.A. and The Colleqe o j Wooster Mr. Cass of the University of Leed~. Woostw, Ohio They deal in a more prrtctical way with fluid statics, How of viscous fluids, turbulence, How in tubes and ducts, flaw around objeeta, and flow of compressible Reports of the Fourth Soviet Conference fluids. Their treatment is more detailed on Eladrochemistry and mrtthematitical than the usual American texts on unit operations. The Academy of Srieneea of the U.8.The final ehaptev (100 pages) on measS.K., Division of Chemical Science. urement of process variables is by Measrs. Consultants Bureau, Inc., New Yolk, Pollard and Canuthers of the University 1958. 8W.pp. 21.5 X 27 em. $12. of L e e d ~ . This chapter is an elementary exposition on process i n s t ~ ~ ~ m e n t a t i o n : This is the collection of abstracts of the measurement of pressme, flow, and papers presented a t this confemnoe on rleetroehemistry. temperature. The gcnerd topics covered are General The fine presentation of physical therQnestions a n Eleetroch~mioal Kinetics modynamics in this volume makes one and the Reaction Mechanism of Electroanxious t o see Volume 8, which is to conchemical Reduction, The Mechanism of tain the material on chemical thermodyElectrode Processes in Melts, Diffusion namics. Fundamentals have been preKinetics, The Mechanism of Oxidation sented rigorously and well in this volume. Rexetiona, The Passivity of Metals and The only question that comes t o mind is how well the man with the B.S. degree Chemisorhed Layers, The Electrodein science can apply these principles and position of Metalp, Chemical Sources of equations to the situations he encounters Current, Electraly~is in The Chemical unless he has an ample number of illusIndustry, and The Electrochemical Processes of Nonferrous Metallurgy. A total trated problems that show the way in which the equations are applied. of 121 abstracts is included in these The next two volumes me also on the general topioa. "fluid state" and promise t o have much of The abstract^ are similar to those importance t o the chemical engineer. published for use by chemists who attend our scientific meetings. The quality of The series is gathering momentum as it moves along and future volumes will he the abstracts varies through the entire anticipated. range of those that tell rather clearly what the results and conclusions are to those KENNETH A. KOBE that simply tell what was done. The TJniversity of Tezas To the American chemist probably the Austin most significant quality of this manuscript is the over-all prspeetive that the reader can gain concerning the breadth and quality of research done in Russia in Outliner of Enzyme Chemistry this field. I t appears to the reviewer t o depict a good suhshntisl program in J . R. Neilands and Paul K . Stumpf, electrochemistry. University of California, Berkeley. 2nd ed. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New A. B. GARRETT York, 1958. xii 411 pp. Many Ohio State University figs. and tables. 16 X 23.5 cm. $0.00. Columbus
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For this second edition, the authors have expanded the treatment of metal ion equilibria, the mechanism of enzyme action, proteolytic enzymes, and nucleotide derivatives into full chapters. All of the other ohaptom have been brought up to date by the inclusion of work since the first edition (1955), and a few have been almost totally rewritten. The largest new section is a 22-page table of enzymes and same of their properties. The net result is a useful revision of a good hook. The authors have presupposed a knowledge of chemistry, biochemistry, and physiology on the part of the student. This makes the last section (Metabolic Patterns (24) difficult for those who have
Handbook of Chemical Microscopy. Volume 1
Brnile Monnin Chamot and Clyde Walter Mason, Cornell University. 3rd ed. John Wilev & Sons. Inc.. New Y O ~ I C , 1958. 502 pp. i5.5 x 23.5 cm. 814. ~~~
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This timely third edition of the "Handbook of Chemical Microscopy" appears after a. period of two decades during which time major advances have been made both in the tools and techniques of microscopy. While the book follows the general format of the previous edition, some major
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