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IN this monograph a brief account is given of the application of electrolysis to the preparation of chemical products. Most of the electrolytic preparations of which a description has been published are referred to, and references to the original publications are given throughout, so that the book is likely to prove a useful guide to the literature of the subject. The reader is, however, left to guess that certain groups of preparations, such as chlorine, sodium, and the alkalis, tb which no reference at all is made either in the text or in the preface, are to be described in other monographs of the series. This probably accounts for the impression created on reading the text that the academic aspects of the subject have secured in this volume undue prominence as compared with its industrial applications. If, however, all the really productive processes have been reserved for other writers, and the author of the present volume has been left to cultivate only the more barren areas, he cannot be blamed for the unfruit-fulness of so large a proportion of the preparations which he describes, and is rather to be congratulated on having given so good an account of the minor applications of electrolysis to chemical industry.
The Manufacture of Chemicals by Electrolysis.
Arthur J.
Hale
By. (A Treatise of Electrochemistry.) Pp. xi + 80. (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1919.) Price 6s. net.
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The Manufacture of Chemicals by Electrolysis . Nature 104, 529 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/104529b0
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