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+ C1- +
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+ 202 + C1- +
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+
+ 1-I’
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( 5 ) Postdoctorate Research Fellow of the Sational Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, U. S. Public Health Service.
JAMESB. CONANT LABORATORIES HARVARD UWVERSITY PAULD. S H A W ~ DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY LOWELLP. HAGER CAXBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS RECEIVEDOCTOBER28, 1959
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BOOK REVIEWS Gmelin’s Handbuch der Anorganischen Chemie. Achte Viillig Neu Bearbcitete huflage. Sauerstoff. Lieferung 3. System-Summer 3. E . H. ERICHPIETSCH,Editor. Yerlag Chemie, G m .b.H ., ( l 7 a ) Weinheim/Bergstr ., Pappelallee 3, Germany. 1958. xi 518 pp. 17.5 X 25.5 cni. Price, L)M 283.--. The volume concerns primarily the properties of elementary oxygen. Ko compounds are discussed other t h a n in relation ts their influence on the properties of or their use in thc preparation of oxygen. The principal topics covered are: t!ie preparation of the element; physical properties of the oxygen molecule, oxygen atom and the oxide ion; molecular properties and electronic structures of species such as 02, 02+,0 2 - and Oa; physical and thermodynamic properties of oxygen; spectral properties of oxygen; electrochemical properties of oxygen; the reaction between oxygen and hydrogen. Little or 110 discussion of ozone or water is given in this volume. Of particular note are the extensive references concerning tlie theoretical interpretation of the properties discussed. T h e reaction between hydrogen and oxygen is treated i n great detail and with considerable reference to the inechanisms of these reactions. 1:EPARTMENT O F CHEMISTRY STATEUNIVERSITYOF IOWA ~ ~ I L I J A E. M IjESSETT IOWA CITY, I O W A
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Radioisotopes in Scientific Research. Proceedings of the International Conference held in Paris in Septeinher, 1957, under the auspices of the United Sations Educational Scientific a i d Cultural Organization. \.olume I I. Research with Radioisotopes in Cheiriistry and Geolc Edited by I
