analytical chemists use as they choose and develop methods of chemical analysis. The text starts with two chapters 01 "Background and Review." These include measurements, graphing, chemical equilihria, activity coefficients, acid-base equilihria, redox equations, redox equilibrium, and the Nernst equation. Chapters 3-6 are the "Foundations of Analysis" including DC electronics, statistics, and sampling. Chapters 8-11 are gravimetric, volumetric, kinetic, and electrochemical methods of analysis. Chapters 13-15 are chromatography (general, GC, and LC). Chapters 1 6 2 0 are spectroscopy, including mass, atomic, NMR, and vihrational. Chapter 21 covers polymer analysis. Most chapters have supplemental material that will be useful to the reader. The introduction tospectroscopy, for example, has eieht suoolements that include: radiation .. tranrducrr8; grating monochromators; con. t m u u n ~sourcp; Beer'$ 1 . 8 ~ :nomenclature c,f mulrculnr nhwrprion; ~pplicalionof rhe. miluminescenee; waves, wavelengths, and spectra; and spectroscopic gratings and wavelength disiersion. Thr l n e l ufpresrnmtion varies. Since the "Backemund and H ~ V I ~cU h a"~ t c mlncludt tooicsiike activitv coefficients and the simulrnn~~,uscquilihrin, the author apparentIy has aiiumed that his renders have taken Qunnt Out nor lnrtrumenml. 'The equilibria are treated sequentially, ranging from simple systems to complex. Ultimately, a systematic treatment is proposed, but on the way, readers see sections like "A Calculation Trick: The Charee " Balance. Now we take a short digression from our calculation.. .."I would prefer a systematic approach from the beginning. Any author must heselective in his choice of material, but Ruhinson and I would have emphasized different facets. The statistics chapter is relatively hasic, not including methods to evaluate two sets of data (Does the ICP-emission data differ significantly from the furnance AA data?). Propagation of error treatment provides rules for addition/suhtraction and multiplicationldivision only and omits the relationship needed to estimate the error associated with operations likelogs, exponentials, derivatives, etc. There is no section on how to calculate the titration curve for a oolvorotic acid. and the . .. ~ h a p t r on r gmvimetrir analysis does not mdude the inlluenre oi pll on salt, of weak acids. The instrumental sections are not dissimilar. The coverage is selective and might not be to everyone's taste. The book's strengths are its examples. Ruhinson used the literature for extraordinary case studies, end-of-chapter problems, and references. His hook is, for example, one of the few undereraduate level texts that speak of the error involved in repositioning the cuvette during analysis by quantitative UV-Vis absorption. This hook would he difficult to teach from, but it contains a wealth of information useful to all teachers of analytical chemistry. Scon R. Goode University of South Carolina Columbia. SC 29208
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ConardFernellus. American Chemical Society: Washington, DC. 1990. xiv 210 pp. 21.3 X 27.6 cm. Figs.. charts, & tables. $59.95 HB, $39.95 PB.
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The ACS Professional Reference Book under review here is a companion volume to the one on organic nomenclature produced by the Committee on Nomenclature of the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry (Fletcher, J. H.; Dermer, 0. C.; Fox, R.B., Eds. Nomunt.luluro of Orcnnw l'ornpu~nde t'rino. plesond I'mrr~re,American Chemwal Swietv: Washineton. - . I)(.'.. 1971). It is alv, an idkal companion volume td the just published International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry "Red Book" (Leigh, G. J., Ed. Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry. Recommendations 1990;Blackwell: Oxford, London, Cambridge, MA, 1990; for a review see Kauffman, G. B. Angew. Chem. 1991, in press). Because the multiauthor approach had caused delays in completing the ACS organic nomenclature book, W. Canard YFernie") Fernelius (1905-1986) volunteered to prepare the inorganic book. When it hecame obvious that the task was too involvedfor one person, he was joined, first by Warren H. Powell, a senior editor of Chemical Abstracts Service since 1973, and then bv B. Peter Block. currentlv Adiunct Prof&sorof chemistry a t ~ a s?enn;ssee t st& University. The authors, all longtime authorities on nomenclature, have written a book designed for use at all levels that explains both current up-to-date methods as well as historical methods for naming all types of inorganic s~ecies.Thev a rationale for the . orovide . methods emnloved . . in chemical nomenclaturr todesignate structureand composition, t o n a m e s p p c ~whenmow r thanonename is used, and to name organic derivatives of inorganic compounds. In 16 chapters, replete with more examples than in the 1990 Red Book, Part I, they feature the latest definitions of pertinent terms and concepts of nomenclature not only for the types of compounds dealt with in the 1990 Red Book, Part I, hut also far species (e.g., isotopically modified species) slated to he discussed in future, as yet unpublished, parts. In most cases the authors refrain from "taking specific positions with regard to alternative methods available far naming a single compound, usually being content to report viewpointsfromdifferent sources.. . .Ingeneral, when alternative methods of nomenclature are possible, simpler, less informative names are discussed before more complex names are considered." Occasionally, to conform 11,North American usage, they deviate from the Red Hook ruler, c g , in rug. eestrnr hp writ. . .that in acid stilts hvdroern . ten as a separate word because it is a word, not a prefix (p 76). The few errors are limited to misspellings or lack of diacritical marks in proper names in the detailed five-page list of refereneesfrsncais for frangais, Traite Elementaire for Trait6 Elementake, Deuxieme for Deux%me, Delepine for DelCpine, Minerale for ~~
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MinCrale (p 191). This volume is an essential tool wherever proper inorganic nomenclature is needed-whether in writing or interpreting the literature. A thoroughly handy reference book, it helongs not only in libraries but also on the desks of material scientists and chemists dealing with inorganic and organometallie compounds of all types. Georae - 0. Kauffman CaliforniaState University. Fresno Fresna, CA 93740
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This hook is concerned with recognizing andanticipatinglaboratoryhazards inorder to take corrective action to minimize the opportunities for future trouble. I t also aims specifically a t helping with the preparation of a Chemical Hygiene Plan as required to meet the 1991 requirement of OSHA's Laboratory Standard, Occupational Erposures to Hazardous Chemicals in Laboratories. These OSHA requirements are concerned with the protection of workers rather than students, but in general they define practices which prudent managers of college lahoratories will wish to adopt fully even if they do not legally apply to students in classes. As with most books this one is stronger in some sections than in others and desirably will be read in conjunction with other references. The book unduly stresses exhaust rates af 100 fpm at the face of chemical hoods. This may he "safe"; but well-designed systems can provide acceptable containment a t lower velocities with savines ,. in 2 ~ 5 1and , 1W fpm d w s nc,t assure adequate
