COLLEGE CHEMISTRY P a u l R. Frey, Colorado State University. Second edition. Prentice-Hall, Ino., Englewmd Cliffs. New Jersey, 1958. xi 707 xliv pp. Many figs. and tables. 1 6 X 23.5 cm. $7.00.
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IN BRINGING the new edition of this popular text up to date, the linedrawings have been entirely redone and 25 photographs of molecular models have been added. The author has taken advantage of the suggestions and comments of the users of the first edition to make the hook more teachable by interspersing the sections of theory and problems with the easier fsctod information. The sections within eaeh chapter are numbered, and the author has thoughtfully tried to restrict eaeh section to one concept for ease in making assignments and so that. "terminal ideas" can be omitted wherc desired. The exercises and problems a t the m d of the chapters are selected to illustrate the principles presented. For the needs of the exceptional student, a few practice problems and a. list of journal references for supplementary reading are provided a t the end of each chapter. Those eounes which aim to provide depth and experience in the mathematical treatment of ionization constants, solubility product, and electromotive force, will need to supplement the text n,ith a problem book. Although the sections have been brought up to date, the modern aspects of the topics have been assimilated so as to maintain the descriptive chemistry a p proach. This is illustrated by the treatment of the Debye-Hiickel interionic attraction theory its merely an extension of the Arrhenius theory into the region of dilute solutions of strong electrolytes.
The logical fashion in which such concepts as Raoult's law are treated, together with other unique features such its the lecture demonstration experiments described a t the end of each chapter, should make this new edition of interest to any instructor who teaches the first course. L. REED RRANTLEY O~C*DENT*I. CO~~LEOT LO* ANBELES,
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ONCE AROUND THE SUN Ronald Fmser, Administrative Secretary of the International Council of Scientific Unions. The Macmillan Co., New York, 160 pp. Many figs. 14.5 1958. xv X 21.5 cm. $3.95.
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IGY for the layman. (And who isn't a layman a t least on some of the farflung scientific frontiers of the IGY from astrophysics to geopolitics?) The sun is the focus, both for part one--On the Boundaries of the Known World and for part two-how the IGY program hopes to push hack those houndmies of k n o d edge. W. F. K.
COLLEGE PHYSICAL SCIENCE Wendell H. Slabaugh, Oregon State College, and Alfred B. Butler, State College of Washington. Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewwd Cliffs, New Jersey, 1958. 496 pp. Many figs. and tables. xii 18.5 X 25.5 cm. $7.75.
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SLABAUGH and Butler have produced an excellent text far a. course in physical science for the non-scientist. The concepts of space, mass, time, and energy are used ns thp common threads of science
with examples of their use drawn from geology, astronomy, physics, and chemistry as well as the border areas between sciences. The hook appears to he very readable, well illustrated, and essentially free of error I would recommend it t o any science teacher who is teaching 8. survey of physicd science either as s. text or as supplementary reading. A great deal of thought and effort was obviously spent in doing a difficult job well. I cannot refrain from expressing a thought not quite germane. Many of us teach courses for the non-scientist and many of us do it somewhat grudgingly. We prefer to spend our time with the prospeotive graduate student and the science-prone. Yet we have had sufficient evidence in the last few years of a general and dangerous lack of understanding and antagonism toward science and scientists on the part of the public (e.g., fluoridation and nucleas testing to name a. few instances). If our college graduates of the future are to have realistic views of us and our work, courses based on information and ideas such as those compiled by Slabaugh and Butler are extremely important. I trust we will not shrug off this immense responsibility. Slabaugh and Butler have shown the essential unity of science by using the four concepts mentioned above as the basis far understanding of such diverse subjects as the solar system, the theory of mountain formation, valence, hiophysical processes, and atomic and nuclear theory.. The final chapters on the future of physical science and the philosophy of physical science including social aspects are excellent. The authors are to he commended for a, thought-provoking approach to a difficult subject. Their hook deserves much attention and use. LEWIS N. P I N 0
REVIEWED IN THIS ISSUE P a d R. Frey, College Chemistry Ronald Fraser, Once Around the Sun Wendell H. Slabaugh and Alj~edB. Butler, College Physical Science Michell J . Sienko and Robert A. Plane. Experimental Chemistry James V. Quagliam, Chemistry Joseph H. Roe, A Laboratory Guide in Chemistry Hermann Rbmpp, Chemie Lexikon. Volume 1 (A-K). Volume 2 (L-Z) Gmelins Handbneh der Anorganischen Chemie. System 28: Calcium. Part B, Section 2 David Shemin, Editor, Bioohernical Preparations. Volume 5. J . W. Cook, Editor, Progress in Organic Chemistry. Volume 4 S. T . Cowan and E. Rowett, Editors, The Strategy of Chemotherapy Ralph W. G. Wyekoff, Crystal Structures. Chapters I 1 and 12 John H . Yoe and Henry L. Koch, Editors, Trace Analysis Boelyn Berlow, Robert H . Barlh and John H . Snow, The Pentaerythritols
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EXPERIMENTAL CHEMISTRY Michell I. Sienko, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Cornell University, and Robert A. Plane, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Cornell University. McGraw-Hill Book 212 pp. Co., Inc., New York, 1958. iv 16 X 22 cm. Instructor's Manual to accompany, 22 pp. Paper bound, $3.25.
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THIS laboratory manual, written to accompany the authors' textbook .'Chemistry," has as its chief purpose to "present to the student a. course. . .that brings out the distinction between
