B O O K REVIEWS Bubble Point and Dew Point Temperatures and Flash 1)istillatirms ( 1 8 pnges); Hnlution of the Material Balance and Equilibrium Relst,ions for Conventional Distillation C,dumns (24 pages); Convergence Methods (32 pages); Enthnlpy Balances fur Conventional column^ (16 pages): Further Refinements for Canventional Cnlumns ( I ! ) pages); Complex Columns (22 pnges); Absorhers and Strippers (I(; pages); Conventional and Complex Cdunnns a t Total ReHux, Total Reboil, and Tcltnl Recycle ( 6 pnges); Conventional and Complex Columns a t Minimum ReHus (33 pages); 1)eterminstion of the Minimum Reflux for Conventional and Cwnpleu Columns (7 pages); Trentment of 1)istillatiun Columns with Bide Strippers ( ! I pages); 9-method of Conversion for Systems of Distillation Columns ( 2 0 pages); The Use of Efficiencies for Mass and Heat Transfer in Cunvent,iond and Complex Ccrlumns (11 pages); Iletermination of Plate Effieienries (11 pages); Thermodynamics of Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium of Multicomponent Mixtures (25 pages); Correlation of V:tpor-Liquid Equilibria for Multicomponent Mixtures (47 pages). This hook should he in the library of everyme interested in the subject.
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Treatise on Analytical Chemistry. Part 11. Analytical Chemirtry of the Elements. Volume 2 a n d Volume 9 Edited hy I. M. Kulthqii, University of Minnesota, Vinnenpolis, and Philip J. Eluing, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, with the assistance of Ernest B. Sandell, University of Minnesota. Interscience Publishem (a division of Jc,hn Wiley and Sons), New York, 1962. Volume 2. xn t 471 DD. Vdume !). xvi 491 pp. Figs. and tshlcs. 17 X 24em. $IReach.
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(For reviews of previous volumes of 37, 10s this treatise see THE JOURNAL j19601, 38, A842, A844 [1961], 39, A j 2 , A132, A604, A913 [1962]. These, t h e fifth andsist,hvolumes of Part I1 t o appear, continue the systemstir treatment of bhe analytical chemistry of the various el* ments, and bring the number of dements considered t o 54, so that approximntely hell of theelements have now been covered. Thc organization of each ehapt,er follows the outline previously dcscribcd. Volume 2 begins with a 101 page chapter on Gallium, Indium and Thallium hy Hiroshi Onishi. The analytical chemistry of Silicon is considered in the 9'1 page chapter written by H. R. Shell, u,hile John R. Mu~groveauthored the 38 pages devoted to Germanium. A chapter of 63 pages by L. M. Melnick develops the analyticel chemistry of Iron. The final two chapters are both written by John
M. Dale and Chsrles V. Banks and cover Cobalt. in 65pages and Nickel in 63 pages. While i t is uerhsos inevitable in the a t the relative paucity of more recent literature citations, far very few references later than l!l3!l appear. A few umissions are noted. Thus, no reference tr, the ion exchsngc separation of Germanium developed by Klcmcnt and Ssndmnnn and by Csbbell, el al., are noted. Referenecs t o the work of Bode in the solvent estraction of various metal diethy1 dithio carbarnates seam t o have escaped dfteetion. Volume 9 is dovot,ed entircl\- to tho analytical chrmistry uf Umnium and the Actinides. The w r y comprehensive section on Uranium was written by Glenn L. Rooman and Jalues E. Rein and occupies 188 pages with over 900 references cited. The Tr:msurani~m~ Actinide elements w e thoroughly covered in the 251 page chapter, with nrarly 400 referenecs, authored by Charles F. Met. and Glmn R. Waterbury. This chapter is xisciy divided into t a u major sections, one covering Septunium, Plutonium and Americium, and the second devuted to Curium through Lnwrcncium. Quite neturelly, the latter scetion is brief. 1)escript,ion of procedures in this volumr is unusually complete, and the rich experience of the authorsis very wident. Certainly this volume is most timely xs i t reprpsmts the (Continued on page Afi8-81)
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