(1) Thermodynamics and the Free Energy of Chemical Substances Theoretical Chemistry from the Standpoint of Avogadro's Rule and Thermodynamics

Abstract

FOR many years back the published researches of G. N. Lewis and his collaborators have occupied a prominent place in the branch of science dealing with the application of thermodynamics to the solution of chemical problems. The book now under review, of which he and his co-worker, Merle Randall, are joint authors, collects and summarises these researches and places them in position in the general framework of thermodynamics. For this alone all interested in matters pertaining to physico-chemical theory would owe them thanks, but the debt is increased by the fact that no better account of modern chemical thermodynamics than appears in this book can be placed in the hands of advanced students.

(1) Thermodynamics and the Free Energy of Chemical Substances

Prof. Gilbert Newton Lewis Prof. Merle Randall. Pp. xxiii + 653. (London: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., Ltd., 1923.) 25s.

Theoretical Chemistry from the Standpoint of Avogadro's Rule and Thermodynamics.

Prof. W. Nernst. Fifth edition. Revised in accordance with the eighth-tenth German edition, by L. W. Codd. Pp. xx + 922. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1923.) 28s. net.