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THIS “Encyclopedia” is very lavish of space ; not only is it set out with a wealth of ‘leads’ that reminds me of much pre-war practice, but also the diction is in many places unnecessarily verbose. For example, instead of stating that atabrine is slightly soluble in water, there is a sub-heading “Solubility”, and well below the words “Soluble in water only to a slight extent”. The very wide spacing and the reiterated sub-headings may make for easy finding, but a more compact form of presentation, with some tables of physical constants, etc., would have reduced the size, weight and price of the volume, or allowed of the inclusion of many more uses.
Encyclopedia of Substitutes and Synthetics
Edited by Morris D. Schoengold. Pp. 382. (New York: Philosophical Library, Inc., 1943.) 10 dollars.
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T., E. Encyclopedia of Substitutes and Synthetics. Nature 152, 709 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152709c0
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