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THE method adopted in the preparation of the present edition by Dr. Haughton has consisted in the retention of as much as possible of the character of previous editions. The earlier and more elementary part of the book required only slight modification. The chapter on the thermal study of metals and alloys, on the other hand, has been re-written; more attention has been given to ternary diagrams, and all the binary diagrams have been brought up to date. There has also been incorporated a section on the application of the methods of X-ray analysis, contributed by Mr. G. D. Preston. But the latter half of the book, dealing with mechanical testing, plastic deformation, thermal and mechanical treatment and defects and failures in metals, has been left very much as Rosenhain first compiled it in 1914. Very little attention has been given to modern work, while the amorphous metal concept has been retained in all its cumbrous details and assumptions.
An Introduction to the Study of Physical Metallurgy
By Dr. Walter Rosenhain. Revised and partly rewritten by Dr. John L. Haughton. Third edition. Pp. xvi + 368 + 36 plates. (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1935.) 20s. net.
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 137, 725 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137725b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137725b0