BOOK REVIEWS air. Conditions of heating are given and s mechanism for the reaction is presented. Other reactions for the modifications of the polymers of: vinyl chloride, vinyl acetate, acrylonitrile, and diehlorobutadiene are given in the appropriate places. The coverage of the field is extensive snd quite complete. The recipes in general are straight forward and should he easy to follow. Special precautions as to safety and sensitivity of reactants to impurities arc well covered. I t should be possible for a college student or technician to get a good yield of polymer after only one to two attempts. This book will make a useful addition to the library of any one interested in making polvmers in small batches. THOMAS FERINOTON College of Vooster Woosler, Ohio Treatise on Analytical Chemistry. 1, Theory and Practice, Volume 2
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I. M. Kolthgtl, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and Phzlip J. Elving, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Interscience Publishers, Inc., New York, 1961. xx 4 9 i pp. Figs. and tables. 16.5 X 24 cm. $16.
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The. [wv-vnr volume ~ m q ) r k t . s111" I ) ~ ~ r l l of o nI'nrt 1, 'l'lmlq :mrl I'mctice For :I n \.iw oi \ ' O I U I ~I.o w T W PJIIVH. N A L 37, 108 (1960).) his section alone is expected to consist of about 124 ehapters and to he aeeommodeted in 8 or 9 volumes. Part 11, Analytical Chemistry of the Elements, and Part 111, Analysis of Industrial Products, will rtlao consist of many chapters and several volumes. Thus the scope of the treatise is truly aweinspiring-for after 1308 pages and 30 chapters perhaps one fourth of Part I is now in print. Volume 2 concludes the discussion of .4pplication of Chemical Principles (Seation B ) and contains a large portion of Section C, Separation: Principles and Technics. Its 11 chapters and their authors are: Reactive Groups as Reagents: Introduction and Organic Applicstions (Leo Schuhert and Irving May), Reactive Groups as Reagents: Inorganic Applications (May and Schuhert), Principles of Separation (Lackhart B. Rogers), The Phase Rule in Annlytical Chemistry (L. 0. Case), Decomposition and Dissalotion of Samples: Inorganic (Hobart H. \Villerd and Charles D. Rulfs), Decomposition and Dissolution of Samples: Organic (E. C. Dunlop), Mechanical Methods (Harold C. Mattraw and Frederick D. Leipsinger), Diffusion Methods (A. L e e cher Jones and Glenn R. Brown), Electromigretion and Electrophoresis (John R. Cann), Distillation (Arthur Rose), Vacuum Methods (William S. Horton). Indexing obviously becomes a problem in a work of this magnitude. It is the present plan to provide an index covering Volumes 1, 2 and 3 of Pert I, to he included with the forthcoming Volume 3. (Continued on page A844) t r l d
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BOOK REVIEWS Thereafter each volume of Part I will oontain an individual index. After all the volumes of Part I are published, a complete index t o all volumes will be issued. Volume 2 continues to exhibit the e d i e ing care which characterized its predecessor. Individual authors were evidently aware of the contents of other related chapters, for there is remarkably little duplication, and frequent reference to other portions of the treatise. In summary, this volume maintains the high standards set in Volume 1. JOEIN R. HAYES The Pennsylvania State University University Park
Treatise on Analytical Chemistry. Par( 2, Analytical Chemistry of the Elements, Volume 1 I . A4. KollhpO; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis and Philip J . Elving; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Interscience Publishers, Inc., New York, 1961. xxi 471 pp. Figs. and tables. 16.5 X 24 cm. $16. For reviews of earlier volumes of the treatise see THIS JOURNAL, 37, 108 (1960).
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This, the first volume of P s r t 11, Analytical Chemistry of the Elements, contains two chapters of a general nature and four describing the analysis of specific substances. An excellent chapter (33 pages) on inorganic nomenclature by W. C. Forneliun provides an introduction to this part of the treatise. This chapter may profitably be read by analytical chemists, for it must be admitted that even they arc nlwsys not above reproach in matters of nomenclature. A brief chspter (9 pages) by James I . Hoffmann provides an interesting review of the development of analytical chemistry and gives some sound general precautions in planning an malytical attack. The determination of hydrogen in its free &ate is covered in a 32 page ehspter by H. F. Beeghly. Logically, the determination of water is next considered in the very complete (137 pages) ehspter by John Mitchell, Jr. The a.nalytica1 chemistry of the inert gafies (except radon) is detailed in the 92 page chspter by Gerhard A. Cook. The remaining third of the volume is devoted to a discussion (159 pages) of the analytical chemistry of the alkali metals, written by Silve Xallmann. The organization of the chapters on the analysis of specific substances exhibits the ssme features noted in the volume of this section released earlier. The individual chapters are well written, and the reader will find the excellent bibliography aceompsnying each chspter to be very useful. A subject index to the volume is included. The character and scope of the treatise is by now too well established to require further comment. JOAN R. HAYES The Pennsylvania State Univemity University Park, Pmnsybania (Continued a page A846)
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