author, "Facts, Files and Action," Part 2. The bihliography is arranged by a soheme peculinr t o the author, and while I did not a t first care for it, I came later to use and depend on it. K A R L P. H E U M A N N CHEMICAG ABSTRACTB SERV~CE CorL.Mnus. 0°K
UNSTABLE CHEMICAL SPECIES: FREE RADICALS, IONS, AND EXCITED MOLECULES Consulting Editor, H, C. Thocher, Jr., Aeronautical Research Laboratory, Wright Air Development Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Published by the New York Academy of Sciences, New York, 1957. 222 pp. 15 X 2 3 cm. Paper bound. $4. THIS work consists of fifteen review papers hy scientists from the different areas of research concerned with unstable chemical species: free radicals, ions, and excited molecules. They were originally presented a t a 1856 conference sponsored hy the U. S. Air Force and first appeared in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 67, 447470 (1957). Teachers and resesrch ~cientistsinterested in the fields of combnstion, radiation chemistry, photochemistry, and kinetics will find this collection of papers very uscful. JACK G. CALVKRT Trm Owia STATE UNITERB~TY C O L U M ~Olll0 ~S.
ANNUAL REVIEW OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY. VOLUME 8 Edited by H. Eyring, University of Utah; Associate editors. C. 1. Christensen, University of Utah, and J. S. Johnston, Stanford Universitv. AnnualReviews.. Inc.. vii 527 Palo ~ l t o ~, a ~ i f o r h i 1957. a, pp. 16 X 23cm. $7.
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TWEXTY-TWO fields of physical ehemistry are reviewed in Volume 8 of this series. Certain topics appearing in the past issues are omitted in 1957. This is in keeping with the policy of covering all possihle areas a t least every three years. Those not included are: (a) Heterogeneous Equilibrium and Phase Diagrams; (b) Stati~ticalMechanics; (r) High Temperature Chemistry; and (d) Isotopes. By thin method of alternating some of the sohjects it is possihle to have an up-twdate review of about 30 fields in a period of two or three years. Each chapter has an extensive list of references. I n all there are 3858 references to the literature including prepublieatition communications. In this cansiderable number of recent references only a dozen or so are devoted to U. S. S. R. publications. A generous use of review articles in the literature affords an even greater coverage of the advances in phyeicxl ohemistry in one compact hook. The Table of Contents of Volumo 8 in(Continued on page AI%)
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dudes: Themoohemistry and Thermodynamic Properties of Substances, by E. F. Westrum, Jr.; Cryogenics, C. F. Squire; Solutions of Electrolytes and Diffusion in Liquids, R. A. Robinson and R. H. Stokes; Solutions of Nonelectrolytes, Z. W. Salsburg; The Solid State, J. A. Krumhansl; Nuclear and Electron Magnetic Resonance, H. M. McConnell; Radiation Chemistry, W. M. Garrison; Quantum Theory, J. W. Linnett and P. G. Diokens; High Polymers in Solution, J. J. Hermans; Kinetics of Polymerizstion, F. W. Peaker; Surface Chemistry and Contact Catdyais, B. S. Rabinavitch and J. H. Singleton; Electrode Processes, P. Delahay; Kinetics of Reactions in Gases, H. S. Johnston; Kinetics of Reactions in Solution, E. L. King; Organic Reaction Mechanisms, J. D. Roberts, G. S. Hammond, and D. J. Cram; Molecular Electronic Spectroscopy, T. Forster; VihrationRotation Spectroscopy, W. F. Edgell; Experimental Molecular Structure, P. J. Wheatley; Combustionand Flames, H. G. Wolfhard and D. S. Burgess; The Physical Chemistry of Proteins, W. Kmumsnn; Bond Energies, A. H. Sehon and M. Sawarc; and Ion-Exchange Resins and Membranes, by H. P. Gregor. Thwe is d s o a. proposed list of topics and authors for Volume 9 (1958). In Volume 8 there are 527 well-packed pages a t I'/s$ per page which in itself is an outstanding achievement for a work of this nature. This book should be in the hands of everyone interested in physical chemistry. DALE DREISBACH HIB*MCOLLE~E Hrsna. Onro
TRANSPORT PROCESSES IN APPLIED CHhlISTRY
R. C. L. Bosworfh, Sydney, Australia. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1956. x 387 pp. S l figs. 5 tables. 14 X 21.5 om. $12.
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IN THIS book the author presents a rather complete theoretical discussion of transport phenomena, making particular applications to industrial chemioel prooesse8. He b e ~ n swith a general treatment, applicsble to all types of transport processes, such as the flow of momentum, mass, energy, electric charge, and even such "scalar processes" as stress relaxation and chemical reaction. These processes are described both kinetically, in terms of general olasses of carriers, and phenomenologically, in terms of driving force, flux, and resistance. The concept of coupled processes is developed, in which the Bow of one property causes a potential with respect to the flow of another. After a. detailed kinetic discussion of transport by molecules (diffusion, convection, turbulent transport) and by radiation, the author develops the thermodynamic a p proach to irreversible processes. Bosworth then considers a combination of individual transport processes (say an en(Continued on page AISO) JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION
