Abstract
THE present small book is written in an interesting style and covers a range of subjects not easily accessible outside patent specifications or large and expensive treatises. The first chapter deals with chemical synthesis, the second with catalysis (containing many interesting facts not usually met with), and the remaining pages deal with the structure of matter and radioactivity, the chemistry of hydrogen, the synthesis of ammonia and nitric acid, methanol, synthetic petrol, perfumes, dyes, drugs, rayon, plastics, artificial textiles, biochemistry, vitamins, hormones, 'poison gases', electrochemistry, and light alloys. The book contains, for its size, an astonishing amount of information, and gives an excellent survey of modern chemical industry. The paper is poor and in the copy reviewed some pages of text were blurred, but as a war publication it puts some other countries rather in the shade. At a time when so much rubbish is published, such a book deserves high praise, and the call for a seventeenth edition points to a demand for educational literature which is noteworthy.
Les derniers progrès de la chimie
Prof.
Roger
Simonet
Par. Dix-septième édition. Pp. 244. (Paris: Éditions Balzac, 1944.) 75 francs.
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Les derniers progrès de la chimie. Nature 157, 209 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157209c0
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