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are ha.ed on a molecr,lnr orbital p i r t ~ ~ r e . The important funrtional groups are treated,each in a separate chapter. SpeIlicl~nrdD. Carripbell, t h e IJniversity of cial emphasis is placed on hidogirally Iowa, Iown City. Tlarmm~rt,Brace, and import,ant concept.: and +he final chapter World, Inc., New York, 1068. xiv is titled, Chemistry of Metabolism. .i.i9 pp. Figs. and tnhles. 17 X 21 Certain items mar the arnlrary and rm. 38.O.i. consistency of the hook. We find statements such as: "On t h e Kelvin scale 0" The n~tthot.has designed his hook for is the theoretically lowest tempernturc st,ldents in s two-semester te~miualr o t w e possihlefor x a m p l e on Earth and is called in chemistry, who have had at least a year absolute zero." And again: "Therc are of high srhool chemistry. The fiwt foul; only 103 known elements." A figtl~eon teen chapters rovw mod of the topirs one page 217 shows t h e eopper(I1) ion as s sixexperts t o find in general texts, vis., coordinate hydrate, yet it is written as a atomir theory, elertronic struetnre of four-coordinate hydrate in the following atoms, honding, stoirhiometry, states of chapter. Acids and hazes are defined wing mntler, nrids and bases, equilihritlm, w d The p~wposeof lhis Ixmk is I < ) supplethe Bransted-Lowry concept. Ilnwevw, vedox. The pare is torrid, and while the mcnt the oll'eringc rf IIw s1:sndnrd t u s l nearly all arid-base reactions arc wlitten mnthematical rnanipolations are quite hook of geneml rhernistry so as 11,pl.ovide as if tho Arrheniw concept were hciug simple, it would appear that students who more sensitivily i l l inlel.prel.ing same of ped.t A canfnsing diagram appears 01, xre not already weir grounded in these Iheie offwings. page 134 as p a ~ tof a kinetic-molenh rhemical pl.inriples will gain little eomThe anthot. has seleclcd eight tapirs. dismlasion of phase equilihrirt. Beneath fovt from the text. They are hero enimemterl: canrepts af this diagmm is the swp~.isingstatement: Chsplelx 16-19 (63 page.;) are essenqnnntitntive composition; the nntiwe of "The diRerence hetween the average kitially descriptive chemist1.y of inorganic elerlt.olyle*; uuits a ~ ddimension.; of uetir energ," of liqnid molecr~lesa t d the compotmds. Aspects of the chemistry of conrent~.alir,niof rol\~tion.;;~,ondurtnnce average kinetic enwgy of gas m o l e r t ~ l ~ s alkali and alkaline earth metals, transition of ions;
