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process industries, including domestic water purification processes. This book also includes an assortment of pro cedures for chemical analysis of scales, sludges, and deposits, and techniques for evaluating ion-exchange resins and for analysis of scrubber solutions used in cleaning process equipment. The book is divided into four parts. The first, "The Chemical Principles of Water Treatment," discusses water con ditioning for boilers and cooling systems with specific reference to prevention of corrosion, scale deposits, and biological fouling. In this part, the author gives a concise presentation on current prac tices of water conditioning, illustrated with chemical equations, sample cal culations and schematic diagrams. Dis cussions are brief and simple, at a level comprehensible to practitioner chemist or chemical engineer in the field. In the second part the author pre sents selected chemical procedures for the analysis of industrial waters. These are subdivided into procedures for analysis of mineral content such as alka linity, hardness, heavy metals, silica, phosphates, sulfates, sulfites, and pro cedures for analysis of dissolved gases such as ammonia in condensates, oxy gen, and carbon dioxide. Included is a section on interpretating results of analysis for the operation of boilers and cooling systems. The third part contains specific pro cedures for analysis of alkaline sulfide solutions, chemical cleaning solutions for process equipment, and evaluation of cation exchange resins. These tech niques are specifically applicable to the petroleum industry and boiler and cool ing systems. Part four, which constitutes a major portion of the text, is entirely devoted to chemical analysis of scales, sludges, and deposits. This is probably the only treatment of its kind to deal with this subject in a systematic comprehen sive manner. The extent of coverage is rather impressive and alternate pro cedures are presented whenever ap plicable. As in previous parts of this book, the author included in this sec tion a rather detailed discussion on interpretation of analytical results with numerous illustrative examples using some 50 analyses and several line draw ings of process equipment. This book represents an impressive number of man-hours spent in as sembling the various analytical pro cedures and discussing their use. Need less to say, the cited procedures and their interpretations are presented m a simple-minded, cookbook recipe for mat. This entailed the preparation of reagents, standardization of solutions, stepwise protocol of analysis and con version factors for presenting results
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in appropriate units (mostly in parts per million). To this end, the book will serve as a sort of a manual for water analysis which was described by the author in the Preface as "Generally, these procedures give more reliable re sults than the usual field methods and are more rapid than the standard methods established by the American Public Health Association and Ameri can Society of Testing Material." Perhaps the main drawback of this book is that it lacks instrumental and automated methods of analysis. Except for simple potentiometric and spectrophotometric techniques, the entire treatment is devoted to classical wet chemical procedures that cover mostly routine chemical analyses in laboratory operations. In an attempt to justify this, the author devoted a two-page dis cussion in the Foreword on the evils of instrumentation and the necessity of a comeback for chemical methods of analysis. He stated, "The fact is, how ever, that instrumental methods, with the possible exception of emission spectrography and X-ray diffraction, are not appropriate for the analysis with which this book is concerned." This is not necessarily correct because instru mental methods of analysis have be come an inherent part of the daily rou tine of many laboratories concerned with the analysis of industrial waters. This deliberate restriction on the scope of the text will limit its applicability and usefulness. In spite of this limitation, the book offers a unique, well-documented com pilation of procedures for analysis of industrial waters. The author has drawn on his vast experience in this field to present a long-needed, \vellwritten treatment on the subject. New Books Organic Chemistry: An Experimental Approach. James S. Swinehart. xiv + 599 pages. Appleton-CenturyCrofts, Educational Division, Meredith Corp., 440 Park Ave. South, New York, Ν. Υ. 10016. 1969. Paperbound. $7.50
This manual is intended primarily for the undergraduate organic labora tory course and is to be used with a modern lecture text. Instrumental techniques are emphasized; however, noninstrumental techniques are not ne glected. The manual contains discus sion material where it is essential to the experiment, but it does not duplicate such material found in most modern texts. Included are traditional organic qualitative analyses, introductory sec tions on most organic instrumental
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techniques written on a level appropri ate for the beginner, and some fairly sophisticated discussions of chroma tography and absorption spectrometry. Chemical Thermodynamics: Principles and Applications. Peter A. Rock, xiv + 508 pages. The MacMillan Co., Collier-MacMillan Ltd., London. 1969. $11.95
As an introduction to thermodynam ics for undergraduates, this book can be used either by itself or as a supplement to one of the standard physical chem istry texts in a physical chemistry course. The subject matter has been developed from lecture material by the author. Numerous solved problems are included in the body of the text. There is perhaps a more rigorous treatment of fundamentals (temperature, internal energy, heat, work and entropy) and applications than most books prepared for undergraduates. Also included is an introduction to statistical thermody namics, with emphasis on the calcula tion of third law entropies and equi librium constants from spectroscopic data. There are 13 chapters in all plus an index. Physical Chemistry: Problems and So lutions. Leonard C. Labowitz and John S. Arents. χ + 524 pages. Academic Press, Inc., I l l Fifth Ave., New York, Ν. Υ. 10003. 1969. Paperbound. $7.50
Advanced undergraduate and begin ning graduate students in physical chemistry should find this book useful as a study aid and as a supplementary .source of problems and solutions. Each chapter has been divided into three categories according to relative diffi culty. The I problems are relatively easy, the II problems intermediate, and III problems difficult. All three types are required for a well integrated course in physical chemistry. The book is di vided into two sections—(1) Problem Statements and (2) Solutions to Prob lems—with an Appendix and subject index at the end. Complexometric Titrations. Gerold Schwarzenbach and Hermann Flaschka. xxii + 490 pages. Barnes & Noble, Inc., 105 Fifth Ave., New York, Ν. Υ. 10003. $14.50
The fifth edition of this book has been rewritten and expanded to cope with the enormous growth of new ma terial on the subject. It has been di vided into two parts, the first of which is basically theoretical, covering titrat 70 A
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Clinical Chemistry for the Small Hospi tal Laboratory. Moira Davison Reyn olds, χ + 196 pages. Charles C. Thomas, 301-327 E. Lawrence Ave., Springfield, III. 1969. $9.75
Although automation has revolution ized the practice of clinical chemistry, general hospitals with bed capacity be low 75 usually cannot justify the ex pense of automatic equipment, nor can such automation be put to efficient use. This book is intended to assist the small hospital laboratory in making available to the physician all clinical chemistries necessary to the welfare of the patient. There is a discussion of equipment, photometric measurement, and quality control for the small laboratory. Where feasible, up-to-date methods are sug gested, and with each procedure recom mended the author gives commercial sources of reagents. There are several literature references, and the level of explanation is such that a technician with limited background and experience should understand it without difficulty. A glossary of terms and a subject index are included.
Practical Optical Crystallography. 2nd edition. Ν. Η. Hartshorne and A. Stuart, ix + 326 pages. American Elsevier Publishing Co., Inc., 52 Vanderbilt Ave., New York, Ν. Υ. 10017. 1969. $11.50
Preparation of this second edition of "Practical Optical Crystallography" has provided the opportunity to correct some misprints and minor errors and to improve the clarity of the treatment in a number of places. References to the literature and descriptions of apparatus have been brought up to date where necessary. A certain amount of new material has been added which includes the following: an outline of the tech niques of dispersion staining for deter mining refractive indices and their dis persion; additional methods of deter mining optic axial angles on crystals mounted on the spindle stage in a ran dom orientation; and an up-to-date address list of manufacturers and sup pliers of polarizing microscopes referred to in the text. The SI unit equivalent to the traditional unit has been given as an alternative in many places in the text,
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International Chemistry Directory 196970. ix + 1111 pages. W. A. Benja min, Inc., 2 Park Ave., New York, Ν. Υ. 10016 1969. $35
This directory is divided essentially into eight parts: (1) worldwide direc tory of academic chemistry and bio chemistry departments; (2) govern ment, industrial, and nonprofit re search laboratories in the U. S.; (3) chemistry meetings; (4) chemistry so cieties; (5) fellowships, grants, and graduate support; (6) awards; (7) chemistry journals; and (8) chemistry books in print (in English since 1964). The contents of the directory will be maintained on magnetic tape and up dated annually by computer. In the future, the cloth bound edition will be priced at $30 and the paper bound edi tion at $10.
Toxic Properties of Inorganic Fluorine Compounds. R. Y. Eagers. x 4152 pages. American Elsevier Pub lishing Co., Inc., 52 Vanderbilt Ave., New York, Ν. Υ. 10017. 1969. $8.00
Although the use of fluorine com pounds, particularly in industry, has increased considerably since the begin ning of the 20th century, information concerning the potentially highly toxic properties of many inorganic fluorine compounds has not been readily avail able to users. Recent work has shown extensive damage to internal organs re sulting from absorption of the fluoride ion into the blood stream, and enzymic inhibition possibly at the ci's-aconitic stage of the Krebs cycle and of the cholinesterases. This book presents collectively case histories and some suc cessful medical treatment in cases of fluoride poisoning which has been re ported in recent literature. Approved safety precautions for use in industry are described. Air pollution by fluorine compounds is reviewed and is illus trated by reports relating to human problems, as well as to the animal and vegetable kingdom in the vicinity of such pollution.
Fifth International Congress on X-Ray Optics and Microanalysis. G. Mollenstedt and Κ. Η. Gaukler, Editors, xii 4- 612 pages. Springer-Verlag, 1 Berlin 33, Heidelberger Platz 3, West Germany. 1969. $54.50
The proceedings of the latest congress in Paris deals with the following central topics: general problems of X-ray op tics, physical bases of electron beam mieroanatysis, quantitative problems of
New Books X - r a y microanalysis, instrumentation, microdiffraction, applications to metallurgy, mineralogy, and biology. M o s t of the papers are presented in English, b u t several others are printed in F r e n c h or German. T h e r e is a complete author index, and the general presentation of the material is of quite high quality.
U. S. Government Publications T h e following m a y be ordered from the Superintendent of Documents, U . S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D . C. 20402; the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, Springfield, Va. 22151; or local U. S. D e p a r t m e n t of Commerce Field Offices. Progress Toward a Chemical Registry System at Chemical Abstracts Service (PB-184 811). Chemical Abstracts Service, ACS, Columbus, Ohio. March 1969. 195 pages. Describes present status and operation of t h e Chemical Registry System, an information-handling system to organize and file information about chemical substances. T h e Registry System files structural data, molecular formulas, names, and bibliographic citations in a set of interrelated manual and m a chine files, making possible the quick retrieval of various items of data about t h e substances filed. Mechanical Properties of Arc-Melted Tungsten-Rhenium-Hafnium-Carbon Alloys (N69-31977). W. D. Klopp and W. R. Witzke. July 1969. 38 pages. Determines effect of 4 atomic per cent rhenium on mechanical properties of hafnium carbide in strengthened tungsten-base alloys.
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Gas Chromatographic Determination of Ethylene Glycol in Used Oils (AD-694 360). G. G. Esposito and R. G. Jamison. September 1969. 14 pages. Extremely refractory and inert to most reagents, Coors laboratory crucibles are quality-made to hold up under repeated use. Coors production consistency insures uniformly thin wall structure for maximum resistance to thermal shock. There's a Coors crucible shape and size for all basic laboratory operations, such as ignition, fusion, filtration, washing, and drying, plus many others for special applications. Readily available in glazed chemical porcelain and high-purity alumina, and on special order in magnesia, thoria, and zirconia. See your local laboratory-supply dealer or write for catalog. Coors Porcelain Company Golden, Colorado 80401
Describes a rapid new analytical p r o cedure for determination of ethylene glycol in crankcase oil using p r o grammed t e m p e r a t u r e gas chromatography. Determination of Trace Quantities of Halogenated Hydrocarbons in Gas Samples (AD-698 120). F. W. Williams et al., November 69, 18 pages. Describes a gas chromatographic oncolumn concentrating technique for determination of halocarbons in a t m o spheric gas mixtures, thus eliminating use of cold t r a p s . Gas samples can be analyzed quantitatively for chlorinated contaminant compounds a t concentrations as low as 10 to 20 p a r t s per billion b y volume.
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