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It is a pity that some universal agreement cannot be attained in the symbolism employed in thermodynamics. Prof. Ulich in this volume on chemical thermodynamics uses symbols which differ from those employed by Nernst, Gibbs, and G. N. Lewis, and thus does not subscribe to either a European or an American standard. This defect is to some extent mitigated by the fact that a compilation of the thermodynamic symbols employed by different authors is given in the introduction. Many books on chemical thermodynamics are inclined to stress the purely mathematical treatment, without bringing the significance of the various equations home to the physical chemical reader by examples. This volume may be commended, in that numerous applications of the three laws are given. It is agreeable to find entropy tables both for elements and compounds now included in a text-book on thermodynamics, as well as exemplification of the practical utility of Gibbs's chemical potential function μ. The last chapter in the book, on surface phenomena, is the least satisfactory; but in the others the reader will find much of interest and of value.
Chemische Thermodynamik: Einführung in die Lehre von den chernischen Affinitäten und Gleichgewichten.
Prof. Dr.
Hermann
Ulich
Von. Pp. xvi + 353. (Dresden und Leipzig: Theodor Steinkopff, 1930.) 18.50 gold marks.
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R., E. Chemische Thermodynamik: Einführung in die Lehre von den chernischen Affinitäten und Gleichgewichten . Nature 128, 52 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128052c0
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