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Still, sometimes one is forced to resort to the method, and the editors have done a service to us all in collecting the best advice on the subject. In general, the authors cover their subjects completely and write in a readable style although Pretorius and deClerk, in spite of their own caveat that "Theoretical treatments have an inborn tendency to become rapidly involved with a multitude of mathematical expressions which, if beautiful to the theoretician, are perhaps less so to the more practical-minded exponent of chromatography," subsequently require three full pages to define the multitude of mathematical symbols used in their chapter. The technique is still so much of an art that I believe the chapters by Verzele and VandenHeuvel will probably be most useful to the majority of readers since these authors address themselves to specific separations. The chapter by Merritt is somewhat out of place in this book since he does not discuss preparative gas chromatography except to comment on the relative advantages of packed and open columns in combined gc-ms. Spectroscopic Tricks, Vol 2. Leopold May, Ed. xiii + 374 pages. Plenum Publishing Corp., 227 West 17th St., New York, NY 10011. 1971. $9.50
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This volume, along with Vol 1, is now an excellent source of practical information for the worker in infrared, emission, and absorption spectroscopy. The books are a collection of articles which appeared in Applied Spectroscopy in the Spectroscopic Techniques section. The time period covered by the articles now stretches from 1959-69, and a common subject index is provided in Vol 2. Each volume contains a few articles on mass spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance, ultraviolet, Raman, and Xray spectroscopy. It seems unlikely that this sparse coverage will make the volumes particularly useful to workers in these latter fields. The two-volume set, however, is indeed useful for the infrared spectroscopist and the user of spectroscopic means for metal analysis.
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This latest volume contains reviews on the following topics: some aspects
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of catalysis (the P. H. Emmett Award address by R. J. Kokes) ; a temperatureprogrammed desorption technique for investigation of practical catalysts (by R. J. Cvetanovic and Y. Amenomiya); recent developments in hydroformylation catalysis (by Frank E. Paulik) ; the mechanism of the oxo reaction (by Milton Orchin and Wolfgang Rupilius); electron localization and oxygen transfer reactions on zinc oxide (by Ph. Roussel and S. J. Teichner); study of kinetic structure by use of marked atoms (by J. Happel) ; catalysis for control of automotive emissions (by Francis G. Dwyer) ; and X-ray scattering techniques in the study of amorphous catalysts (by P. Ratnasamy and A. J. Leonard). Physical Science. Third Edition. Verne H. Booth and Mortimer L. Bloom, xiii -f 705 pages. Macmillan Co., 866 Third Ave., New York, NY 10022. 1972. $11.95
The authors' intentions in writing this book are to attempt to deepen the understanding of the physical sciences by the nonscience college student and to show that the sciences are not beyond the comprehension of the average person. The book is primarily an exposition of the major concepts and theories of physical science, but it is also an attempt to set these concepts and theories into a broad historical and philosophical concept. The discussion is mostly in the form of description and explanation, rather than description only. No mathematics beyond elementary algebra and some plane geometry is presupposed. The selection of the major topics has changed little from the previous editions, but the order and organization have been modified to improve the continuity and the integration of the various topics and to give better and more complete explanations of many phenomena. New topics covered in this edition include discussions on relativity, continental drift, and nucleic acids. Applied Spectroscopy Reviews, Vol 5. Edward G. Brame, Jr., Ed. xii + 360 pages. Marcel Dekker, Inc., 95 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016. 1972. $19.50
This is the newest volume in the series that provides the latest information on principles, methods, and applications of spectroscopy, along with discussions that relate physical concepts to chemical applications. Volume 5 contains reviews on the following topics: spectroscopy of electron donoracceptor systems, the recording of infrared spectra at low signal levels, the application of spectroscopic techniques
