given him the fundamental equations for such designs. Other courses in civil, electrical, and meehsnieal engineering have propitred the student for the structural part of construction. The individual chapters give practical suggestions, shortcut methods, and optimum size formulas. These chapters cover vessels, heat exchangers, process pumps, compressors and vacuum pumps, motors and turbines, other proresa equipment, piping design, thermal insulation, process instnlmentn, plant utilities, foundations, structures and buildings, and finally, safety in plant designs. The final Part 4 is a single chapter on construction, which shows how the pmject engineer must work with the construction superintendent to completo the plant in tho scheduled time. The engineering ~ t u d e n t , no matter what his branch of specialization may be, who desires to enter the design and conf i t ~ c t i o nphases of industry should study this hook. It is based on a. wealth of practical experience of the authors, who have presented it exoellently. K E N N E T H I. KOBE Cmvsnstrr or T r x r ~ ~ U B T I N .T E X A ~
RECORDS AND RESEARCH I N ENGINEERING AND INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE
I. Edwin Holstrom, Department of Natural Sciences, UNESCO. Third edition. Chapman and Hall, Ltd., London, England, 1956. xii 491 pp. 15 figs. 1 5 X 22 cm. 60s.
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IT IS difficult to imagine the person for whom this whole hook was written. Rather, it is three books, for three different audiences, with equal space given to each topic. The first third is ooncerned with a general survey of physical science and technology, and is designed for the neu; comer to research. I t is larded with quotations from other hooks devoted to the same topic, and seems t o me the weakest of the three parts. The middle one-third consists of three chapters on orgsnimtians oonnected with scientific research and development. They cover Britain, other countries, and international organizations. There is s, great deal of accurate information here not available elsewhere, and it reflects the author's wide experience a t UNESCO and other places in t,his area. The United States is covered in about 12 pages, and THIS JOURNAI. is mentioned. The final pert is devoted to what has came to be called documentation, and again reflects the author's central position in this work. This nould make a good cwrent survey of documentation for anyone. The author mentions meeting engineers who have not h e a d of the Engineering Indez; I think this is because it is not used or even mentioned in schools. In this part them is also considerable crossreference to another book by the (Continued on page A1Z6) JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION
author, "Facts, Files and Action," Part 2. The bihliography is arranged by a soheme peculinr t o the author, and while I did not a t first care for it, I came later to use and depend on it. K A R L P. H E U M A N N CHEMICAG ABSTRACTB SERV~CE CorL.Mnus. 0°K
UNSTABLE CHEMICAL SPECIES: FREE RADICALS, IONS, AND EXCITED MOLECULES Consulting Editor, H, C. Thocher, Jr., Aeronautical Research Laboratory, Wright Air Development Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Published by the New York Academy of Sciences, New York, 1957. 222 pp. 15 X 2 3 cm. Paper bound. $4. THIS work consists of fifteen review papers hy scientists from the different areas of research concerned with unstable chemical species: free radicals, ions, and excited molecules. They were originally presented a t a 1856 conference sponsored hy the U. S. Air Force and first appeared in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 67, 447470 (1957). Teachers and resesrch ~cientistsinterested in the fields of combnstion, radiation chemistry, photochemistry, and kinetics will find this collection of papers very uscful. JACK G. CALVKRT Trm Owia STATE UNITERB~TY C O L U M ~Olll0 ~S.
ANNUAL REVIEW OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY. VOLUME 8 Edited by H. Eyring, University of Utah; Associate editors. C. 1. Christensen, University of Utah, and J. S. Johnston, Stanford Universitv. AnnualReviews.. Inc.. vii 527 Palo ~ l t o ~, a ~ i f o r h i 1957. a, pp. 16 X 23cm. $7.
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TWEXTY-TWO fields of physical ehemistry are reviewed in Volume 8 of this series. Certain topics appearing in the past issues are omitted in 1957. This is in keeping with the policy of covering all possihle areas a t least every three years. Those not included are: (a) Heterogeneous Equilibrium and Phase Diagrams; (b) Stati~ticalMechanics; (r) High Temperature Chemistry; and (d) Isotopes. By thin method of alternating some of the sohjects it is possihle to have an up-twdate review of about 30 fields in a period of two or three years. Each chapter has an extensive list of references. I n all there are 3858 references to the literature including prepublieatition communications. In this cansiderable number of recent references only a dozen or so are devoted to U. S. S. R. publications. A generous use of review articles in the literature affords an even greater coverage of the advances in phyeicxl ohemistry in one compact hook. The Table of Contents of Volumo 8 in(Continued on page AI%)
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