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of vapor-liquid equilibrium and vapor pressure is outstanding. Other important tubjects are ultrasonics, unit operations and unit processes, units and their symbols, and vacuum tubes. The technological subjects range from turpentine to waterpmofing, and include type metals, varnishes, vat dyes, and wallboard. There are extensive discussions of industrial and municipal water, and industrial wastes and their disposal. The section on vinyl compounds includes hoth monomers and polymers of the various vinyl derivatives and also vinylidene chloride. If you are a smoker, you will he interested in the section on tobacco hy Harlan and Moseley of the American Tobacco Company. We would hardly expect them to mention that nasty phrase "lung cancer," hut they have given a fine discussion of tobacco technology and chemistry, and the research plans now in uroeress .. which include health factors. \'our wife rill bc iuterceted i n Florenrc \\'all's lunr scvtion un tints, hnir dyes, nnd blravlm. You m:1y h o \ to ~ irrtcrprat some uf it for her, but then you'll IIHW H ~ I W idc3 P a b m t dwmi~rry'il greatest achievements blond. All can read with enjoyment and profit Robert Calvert's section on trademarks. Much is covered besides the typical trademwk, for example, slogans, sounds, and the like. The loss of the trademark Cellophane as it became a generic descriptive term cellophane is discussed; the same thing happened to aspirin. One more volume to go!
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set down, essentially in layman's language, the rudiments of the materials problems that will face anyone who desires to design, construct and operate a nuclear reactor for the generation of power." It remains to he seen, however, whether the "investors, insurance men, lawyers and executives . . ." can really absorb even as palatable a dose as this short review of nuclear science and the related materials problems. It is not really possible to explain nuclear rertctors to "investors" so that they can use the information without additional advice to decide whether or not to buy stocks in a nuclear power plant. Nor can the authors escape from their technical dialect. In short, the layman needs more than a little technical education t o he able to assimilate even so simple a treatment as this. This book is, nevertheless, an excellent introduction to nuclear materials problems for one whose technical training bas been mainly in d i e d fields, or for engineers who have been out of school a few years and wish to bring themselves up to date in the new field of nuclear materials engineering. It can alao be recommended for students near the beginning of their scientific careers. LAURENCE 8. F08TER BELUONT. MASBACHO-BBTTB
CHEMICAL TRADE NAMES AND COMMERCIAL SYNONYMS: A DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN USAGE
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ABSTRACTS OF THE LITERATURE ON SEMICONDUCTING AND LUMINESCENT - --- MATERIALS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS (1954 ISSUE)
Battelle Memorial Institute. Ichn Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, l9SS. viii 200pp. 22.5 X 29 cm. Paper bound. $5.
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THIS volume contajns the abstracts of 765 articles from the domestic and foreign literature during 1954. These accounts will he of most interest to those working in the solid-state eleetronic-device industry. Many cover specific research investigations or patents. This is s. companion to the 1953 issue and should be most useful to those desiring to keep up with these phases of solid state phyeios and electronics.
THIS volume, the welcome reappearance of the out-of-print first edition in a revised and greatly augmented form, should he in every chemieallihrtlry. I t is not adietionary except in the specialized sense that the commercial synonyms and trade names tahulated in its 466 pages are most frequently identified by a typical use of the material. They range from such familiar terms as "magnesia" or "rayon" to the bewildering "81432(G. E.)," (alcohol-soluble polysilicone composition, cosmetic formulations) or the esoteric "Nymphrap (Sylvania)" (cellulose acetate she& ing). The author states that nearly 100 new trade names are added in the industrial field each month. I n view of this situation, intelligent reading of the trade literature by the nonspecialist without such a volume as this for reference would he an almost impossible task.
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Tnrs is the seventh Reinhold Pilot Book issued to date covering new developments in science and technology. The materials that are reviewed in this small hook are those needed for nuclear reactors: fuel elements, moderatora, reflectors, coolants, contml rods, biological shields, and supporting structures. These include uranium and thorium, hoth as elements and useful compounds, plutonium, graphite, beryllium, light and heavy water, Na-K, bismuth, boron, cadmium, hafnium, gadolinium. aluminum, iirconium; stainless steels, i n d mstehais for aggregate t o make dense concrete. A chanter on Health Phvsies is verv brief and makes onlv nrohlpmp " casual mention of waste disno~alr ~ - - .~ The pllrposl of rhk volurnc i9 rcvclled in the iluriug lrxrngrnph of the Fonwml by T. Keith Glennnn: "[the authur.] are to he congratuleted on their initiative and diligence in undertaking to ~
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I. M. McLeod, D. D. Howart, and H. B. Bell, all of the Royal Technical College, Glasgow. Reprint. Philosophical Library, New York, 1955. 71 pp. 21.5 X 29 cm. $6. THISis a hard-cover reprint of the second series of authoritative &views" that have been published monthly in the British magazine, Iron and Steel, since Feb-uary, 1953. The present set began in the February, 1954, issue. The three general topics covered are Preperation of Ores, Electric Steel Production, and Non-Metallic Inolusions. Inorganic and metdlurgical chemists will find these reviews an easy way to bring themselves up to date on the suhjects of sintering of iron ores; removal of sulfur and hydrogen in steel making; use of chromium in electric furnace steel; use of oxygen in steel making; deoxidation procedures and prcducts; and oxide, sulfide, nitride, and other inclusions. These reviews cover recent literature through 1953. The 80-page, paper-bound reprint of the first series sold in England in 1954 for 4s 6d. The $6.00 price for this slender, 71. ~ page, hard-cover reprint is, in comparison, scandalously high.
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