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THE ninth volume of Mellor's “Comprehensive Treatise” covers the tervalent and quinquevalent elements, arsenic, antimony, bismuth, vanadium, columbium, and tantalum. These elements do not possess the exceptional interest of the earlier homologues, nitrogen and phosphorus, which were described in a separate volume, but they are very fertile in producing chemical compounds of the type of vanadium heptabromo antimonite, VBr4, SbBr3, 7H2O, which are vouched for by chemical analysis but have not yet been provided with satisfactory structural formulæ. In these circumstances the volume is likely to pass more quickly than would otherwise be the case to the bookshelf which contains the earlier members of the series, there to await trial by usage as a work of reference.
A Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry.
By Dr. J. W. Mellor. Vol. 9: As, Sb, Bi, V, Gb, Ta. Pp. xiv + 967. (London, New York and Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., 1929.) 63s. net.
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A Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry . Nature 124, 757 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124757c0
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