faniily groups. KO thermodynamic functions are presented. According to the introduction, this hook was intended as reference work for the Melting Point Tables of Organic Comelectrical, radio, vacuum metallurgy, and pounds related industries. It prohnbly was, and is, the most aut,horitative book in Russian Walter Ulermark and WaUer Sehieke. in this area, but four American publications 2nd rev. and supplemented ed. Interduplicate and, in three rases, supercede science Publishers (a division of John Kesmeyanov's contribution in wholeV or Wiley and Sons, Inc.), New York, in p a r t . J ~ V h u salthough , they have just 1963. xxxii 715 pp. Tables. 17 X been published, these translations are 24 em. $22.50. mainly valuable as good literature summaries through 1959 with a smattering of This series of tables contains a sur1960 references. Many of the estimated prising amount of information about pure data can now be replaced with reliable organic compounds. The moleculm forexperimental results (Rh, Pd, Os, Ir, and mula, structural formula, molecular weight Hf, for example) and same of t,he disand color, boiling point, specific gravity, crepancies one finds in Table 111 where and solubilities are listed, as in most hTesmeyanov compares his values for heats handbooks. Three columns headed Physof sublimation with those of Stull and ical Constants and Properties, Reactions, Sinke1or Hanig2have been resolved. and Beilstein Reference contain much Possibly the major significance of this additional information. translation is the detailed exposition, in The book has a number of features to English, of the theory and application of enhance its usefulness. There are formula the isotope exchange method which Nesand general indices plus B list of abbreviameyanov and his colleagues have develtions and special terms which are used. oped. In particular, this is important The book is written in German, but the because the major, unresolved discrep abbreviations and special terms sections ancies (Nb, Co, and Ni) concern a choice are given in four languages. between results of radioisotope studies and J O H N D. REINHEIMER more traditional Langmuir or Knudsen Collere of Wwste~ weight loss measurements. While the disWooster, Ohio crepancies for Co and Ni appear to be resolvable by postulating evaporation and condensation coefficients for Co and Ni in the range 3'5 X lo-', the data for Nb show an opposite and unexplainable relation. Clearly, more work on Nb is desirable and a careful review of the work on Co Vapour Pressure of the Elements and Ni is required. An. N. Nesmevanou, U.S.S.R. Academy In summary, although the book was an of Sciences, Moscow. Translated and authoritative review of vapor pressures in edited by J. I. Carasso. Academic its language in its time, one tends to ask 469 Press, he., New York, 1963. vi (a) Why did it take two years to pp. Figs. and tables. 16.5 X 22 em. translate and print? 514.50. ( b ) Why did two different publishen Vapor Pressure of the Chemical duplicate this effort? Elements ( c ) Why did they bother when equally authoritative books and/or review articles A. N. Nesmeyanou. Translated by were available or in preparation? If its Scripta Technioa. American Elsevier main use is as a handbook, then simply Publishing Co., Inc., New York, 1963. reprinting the appendices with English xi 462 pp. Figs. and tables. 17.5 X headings would have served the purpose. 24.5 em. $17.50. As long as the manuscript was transThese books, two independent translalated, it would have been useful to add an tions of a Russian review on vapor prewure alphabetical author index to the appenmeasuring techniques and results published dices. originally in 1961, appeared essentially a t the same time and create concern about JOHN L. MARGRAVE the apparent lack of coordination among Rice University those publishen bringing translations of Houston, Texas Russian and other foreign language documents to the market. Both translrttions appear to be well done and the quality of ' D. R. Stull and G. S. Sinke, "Thermothe figures and graphs is good. dynamic Properties of the Elements," iYesmeyanov has reviewed methods for Advances in Chemistry Series, No. 18, vapor pressure measurements in the first American Chemical Society, Washington, n c-., ! IQM 100 pages of the book. The remaining -. pages present summaries of the available R. M. Honig, R. C. A. Review 18,195 data. up to early 1960, a critical evaluation (1957); Bid., 23, 567 (1962). and, finally, a "best" vapor pressure R. Hulteren. R. L. Orr. P. D. Ander= A equation in the form log P, , Values of son and K. K. ~ e l l e y "~elicted BIT C?' D log T and the heats of Thermodynamic Properties of Metals and sublimation and/or evaporation at O°K Alloys," Wiley, New York, 1963. and 298%. Tables of nressures a t se'For elected elements, the JANAF lected temneratures and iem~eraturesa t Thermochemical Tables, edited by D. R. which partklrtr pressures sre'atteined are Stull, The Dow Chemical Company, presented according to periodic table Midland, Michigan.
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A chemistry textbook should fulfill the dual purpose of presenting the broad cultural aspects of study in the physical sciences and of preparing students for more detailed and exacting study a t higher level. The textbook author is charged with satisfying these conditions and doing so with a. style which excites, rather than dampens, the curiosity of the student. Professor Hutchinson has responded successfully to this challenge. He has revised the earlier edition to conform with the continuing trend towards more detailed discussion of atomic structure, chemical periodicity, and the chemical band early in the freshman course. Chapters 1 and 2 are a review of e l e mentary concepts and chemical calculsr tions for which many beginning students have some proficiency. They are primarily for the benefit of students who have hadno chemistry in highschool, but should be instructive and interesting for all readers. Chapters 3 through 20 contain a remarkably coherent treatment of elementary physical chemistry. Chapters 21 through 34 cover descriptive chemistry of the elements and representative reactions, somewhat more concisely presented than in the first edition hut of the same high standard. The author has been cautious in intraducing physical and mathematical models which a t this stage of atudy cannot be rigorously developed. Those which he does choose to discuss me skillfully interrelated with simpler theories or experiments so that the student should feel encouraged to delve more deeply into the foundations of the abstract concepts. This point can be illustrated with the author's deployment of the integrated form of the Clausius-Clapyron equation. I t is broached in a discuasion of the effect of temperature upon vapor pressure and then applied later to solubility, colligative properties of solutions, and chemical equilibrium, always with adequate crossreferences. Other thermodynamic funetions are mentioned, e.g., De Donder's a h i t y , but the reader is not beguiled into thinking that he is learning a great deal about thermodynamics. In general the rigor with which each topic is handled seems well adjusted to the mathematical aptitude one might expect of most freshmen. The author presumes that students are familiar with the most basic principles of classical mechanics and electrostatics. Discussions included in appendices help recall these fundamentals, One might suggest an extension of appendix items to include a brief outline of some elementary laws of electricity and magnetism with particular emphasis upon the concept of force fields. The problems which appear s t the end of each chapter emphasize the desirability (Continuad a page A598)
