Abstract
ALTHOUGH interest in the military applications of explosives has probably waned to a considerable extent in most countries, it is perhaps not generally realised what an important part these products of chemical invention play in the arts of peace. The name of the author of this small book is sufficient to guarantee the accuracy of the information contained in it, and it is only necessary to state that Dr. Farmer has compressed into about a hundred small pages a surprising amount of up-to-date material. The style is easy, but the treatment is such that the book is far from being merely a “popular” account of the subject: it is a small encyclopaedia, which may be read with advantage by all students of chemistry as well as by those more directly interested in the manufacture and uses of explosives. The very important source of sulphur at Louisiana should have been mentioned on p. 37.
The Manufacture and Uses of Explosives, with Notes on their Characteristics and Testing.
Dr.
R. C.
Farmer
By. (Pitman's Technical Primer Series.) Pp. xii + 116. (London: Sir I. Pitman and Sons, Ltd., 1921.) 2s. 6d. net.
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The Manufacture and Uses of Explosives, with Notes on their Characteristics and Testing . Nature 109, 270 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109270b0
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