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LECTURES, delivered last year before the Institute of Chemistry by Prof. G. T. Morgan, entitled “A Survey of Modern Inorganic Chemistry” have been made available to a wider audience by their publication by the Institute as a pamphlet which extends to more than one hundred pages (London: Institute of Chemistry). The three lectures thus provide chemists with a valuable monograph on the recent advances and tendencies of inorganic chemistry. Prof. Morgan describes, inter alia, the discovery and preparation of ‘heavy’ hydrogen, which some believe will prove so different from ordinary hydrogen as to be regarded almost as a new element, “in which case the organic chemistry of compounds containing this heavy isotopic hydrogen will become a fascinating but fearful study”. Mention is made of the newer fundamental units of atomic structure, and attention is given to the electronic conception of chemical valency. The periodic groups of elements are then considered in turn with reference to the experimental successes of recent years in the discovery of new elements, new types of compounds, and new properties. Co-ordination compounds, in view of their general importance and of an interest which has resulted in many contributions to our knowledge of their behaviour having been made by Prof. Morgan and his pupils, receive due examination. The survey in this pamphlet disposes adequately of the suggestion that inorganic chemistry is anything other than a progressive and rapidly growing section of the science, and it is satisfactory that there are evident signs of a renewed interest in this branch of research among British chemists.
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Recent Advances in Inorganic Chemistry. Nature 133, 411 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133411b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/133411b0