BOOK REVIEWS papers presented a t this meeting have been rollected in this vulume. The physical properties of metalammonia solutions are presented in detail in these authorit,ative and well documented reports. Tarious models that have been proposed to account for the unusual behavior of these solutions are thoroughly examined. This hook will he s, valuahle resource for both the wecialist and the uninitiated. Typographirnl errors are numenms.
J. I?.1). Concise Inorganic Chemistry
J. D. h e , Loughborough College of Technology, England. I). !-an Nostrand, Co., Inc., Princeton, New Jersey. aii + 248 pp. Figs. and tahles. 16 X 23.5 cm. 88.50. If the author's intent has heen inlerpreted properly, he appears t,o have attempted the impassible, i.e., the preparation of s. volume useful from the high school senior level to and including the college senior level. The result is a n intermingling of the extremely elementary and suggestions of the more profound. One does not proceed far into this v01ume hoforo encountering same disturbing statements. On page 1 the atom is asserted to consist of electrons, protons, and neutrons; other fundamental p~trt,icles are ignored. On page 2, "One may think of the orhital electruns as boing arranged in certain well-defined orbits;" the uncertainty principle is not e v m mentioned. There seems no reason here to recount the chaptor-by-chapter content of t,his hook. Certain general fext,ures however merit. comment, as examples. Although molecular orhital theory is discussed very briefly, valence hond theory is used in most contexts. The elements Ac, Th, Pa, and Ti are considered as hoth d- and f-series elements. Neutron-induced fssion and solf-sustaining chain rexetians are discussed without, mention of spontaneous fission. At the end of each chapter there is a list of "Pro1,lems" none of ~ h i c hincludes a single compul.ation. The author has succeeded in a t least mentioning most of the topics likely to he included in almost any course in inorganic chemistr,~. I n his efforts to realize eanciseness however he all too often achieves superfiriality. It seems doubtful that this volume will prove useful ns a texthook s t any level without extensive supplementation and elahoration. GEORGEW. WATT Unisersilt, qf Tezas Austin Chemistry in Engineering
Lloyl A. Munro, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englemad Cliffs, New Jersey, 1964. xii 460 pp. Figs. and tahles. 16 X 23.5 cm. $9.75.
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