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PROF. LOUIS is to be congratulated on the completion of the translation of the second edition of Dr. Schnabel's great work. Little delay has been experienced in placing it in the hands of English metallurgists, as the corresponding German edition was not published until 1904. The volume which has just been issued contains the metallurgy of zinc, and shorter sections on cadmium, mercury, bismuth, tin, antimony, arsenic, nickel, cobalt, platinum, and aluminium. As the first edition appeared nine years ago, there have been great advances in the metallurgy of some of these metals since it was written, and these have caused many alterations and a considerable enlargement in the present volume. The changes are distributed throughout, the whole text having been carefully revised, but some of the most striking changes occur in the sections devoted to the production of aluminium on a large scale and to the electrolytic treatment of zinc. Electrolytic methods generally are fully treated, the author expressing his indebtedness to the works of Dr. Borchers for much of this part of the book.
Handbook of Metallurgy.
By Dr. Carl Schnabel. Translated by Henry Louis. Vol. ii. Second edition. Pp. xvi + 867; illustrated. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1907.) Price 21s. net.
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Handbook of Metallurgy . Nature 75, 486 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/075486b0
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