Abstract
MEETING this compilation for the first time, the reviewer was at once impressed by the great amount of information it contains and somewhat disappointed by the mode of presentation. Evidently its present form has been acquired by evolution through recent editions ; but it would appear that some of the individual glossaries could be combined, with a net gain to the convenience of the user: such are, for example, “Constructional Materials” and “Chemical Plant”; and “Industrial Chemicals”, “Fine Chemicals”, “Pharmaceuticals” and “Perfumery Raw Materials”. This suggestion would seem to have added force because of the great number of trade-names of products which the glossaries contain-a feature contributing greatly to their usefulness. It must, however, be admitted that the 22-page “Index to Technical Data” covering all the glossaries and the intervening articles goes far to provide a simple alternative: it survived all tests the reviewer could apply.
Chemical Industries
Edited by L. Ivanovszky. Twentieth edition, enlarged and revised. Pp. xxviii+394. (London: Leonard Hill, Ltd., 1946.) 15s.
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Chemical Industries. Nature 157, 678 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157678d0
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