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THE appearance of this first book on the electrochemistry of gases will be welcomed by a wide circle of physicists and chemists, who will also remember that one of the authors has written the first book on a related subject, namely, reactions initiated by α-particles. This book is the more welcome because of all the chemical writers on electrochemistry, none since Löb in 1905 appears to have found the part of the subject relating to gases of sufficient importance to devote to it more than a trivial portion of a book, despite the very extensive literature on the subject. Physicists writing on discharge phenomena, with the exception of Stark in 1902, are even more disappointing, for all the later writers have either omitted to mention the subject or dismissed it in a few lines.
The Electrochemistry of Gases and other Dielectrics
By Prof. G. Glockler Prof. S. C. Lind. Pp. xiii + 469. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1939.) 30s. net.
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LUNT, R. The Electrochemistry of Gases and other Dielectrics. Nature 144, 93 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144093a0
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