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THE distinguishing features of this book are the omission of material which belongs specially to physics and the illustration of the theory by numerical examples. A detailed consideration of the laws of thermodynamics, for example, is replaced by a brief but very clear and instructive discussion of the entropy as a measure of internal disorder, and the formulæ for maximum work and entropy changes are given in a very practical form. the calculations deal with systems of practical interest and are most instructive and helpful. Although the book is short it is in no way superficial or too elementary, and the emphasis is modern throughout. The brief biographical and historical notes add interest to the text.
Kurzes Lehrbuch der physikalischen Chemie
Von Prof. Dr. Hermann Ulich. Untcr Mitarbeit von Dr. Kurt Cruse. Pp. xvi + 315. (Dresden und Leipzig: Theodor Steinkopff, 1938.) 12 gold marks.
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Chemistry. Nature 144, 194 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144194b0
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