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Beryllium
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JOURNALOFTHELESS-COMMONMETALS
Book Reviews Beryllium, by G. E. DARWIN AND J. H. BUDDERY, Butterworths 1960,392 pages, 6/3 10s.
Scientific
Publications,
London
The growing interest in beryllium and its development in this country in the nuclear engineering field are alone sufficient reasons for welcoming a good survey of present knowledge on this rarer metal and its oxide. This book summarises the various methods of extracting beryllium, and provides extensive information on the fabrication of the metal and on its properties. The authors remark that at this stage of development some of the available information is contradictory and in such cases they have taken pains to supply the fullest experimental details. Owing to the growing importance of beryllia a chapter is devoted to its preparation, fabrication into shapes, and fundamental and structure-sensitive properties. The uses of beryllium as a true alloying constituent and as a minor alloying addition are considered in detail, as are the applications of the metal, its alloys, and its oxide. Interest in the use of beryllium-base materials in nuclear engineering centres largely around the extremely low thermal neutron absorption cross-section of beryllium, and the authors have devoted special attention to the nuclear properties of the metal and to its uses in reactors. Not without justification, detailed consideration has been given to the health hazards arising in the handling of beryllium-containing materials and to their control. The book is well written and the reader would have difficultyin criticising either the presentation of the extensive information contained in its twelve chapters or in suggesting how this information could be elaborated. With the additional help of the copious references included, this book should enable anyone seeking the latest knowledge on the subject it covers adequately to satisfy his requirements. As the latest monograph in the series on the metallurgy of the rarer metals the book fully maintains the high standard set by its predecessors. J.W.C. J. Less-Common Metals, 2 (1960) 404
3e Colloque de Mbtallurgie SW la Corrosion (3rd Metallurgy Symposium on Corrosion), North Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam, 1960, 240 pages, 38.00 guilders, E 3.12s. This Colloquium on the corrosion of metals and alloys under dry and aqueous conditions contains eighteen authoritative papers dealing with many aspects of the fundamental and practical significance of this important subject. The first paper considers existing theories of oxidation and examines the results obtained in recent studies of oxidation phenomena. Further papers deal with the inhibition of the corrosion of magnesium heated in wet air; with the gaseous attack of magnesium and uranium; with the corrosion of stainless steels by pure water at high temperature; with the stress corrosion cracking of Inconel in high-temperature water; with the corrosion of steels by hydrogen sulphide; with the morphology of oxidation films; and with the influence of hydrogen on the corrosion of zirconium and its alloys in high-temperature water. In a short review it is impossible to refer individually to all of the papers that make up this compilation, but while some have been specifically mentioned it is not to be inferred that the remainder are of any less interest or importance. Only a few of the papers deal with metals falling exactly within the terms of reference of the Journal of the Less-Common Metals, but readers of that Journal wishing to acquaint themselves with recent work in the corrosion field would do well to refer to this publication. Much of the fundamental information it contains is, of course, applicable to common and less-common metals alike, and the fact that many of the papers do not deal directly with the latter does not detract from the value of the book as a contribution to basic knowledge on a subject with which many less-common metals are closely associated. J. W.C. J. Less-Common Metals, 2 (1960) 404
JOURNALOFTHELESS-COMMONMETALS
Book Reviews Beryllium, by G. E. DARWIN AND J. H. BUDDERY, Butterworths 1960,392 pages, 6/3 10s.
Scientific
Publications,
London
The growing interest in beryllium and its development in this country in the nuclear engineering field are alone sufficient reasons for welcoming a good survey of present knowledge on this rarer metal and its oxide. This book summarises the various methods of extracting beryllium, and provides extensive information on the fabrication of the metal and on its properties. The authors remark that at this stage of development some of the available information is contradictory and in such cases they have taken pains to supply the fullest experimental details. Owing to the growing importance of beryllia a chapter is devoted to its preparation, fabrication into shapes, and fundamental and structure-sensitive properties. The uses of beryllium as a true alloying constituent and as a minor alloying addition are considered in detail, as are the applications of the metal, its alloys, and its oxide. Interest in the use of beryllium-base materials in nuclear engineering centres largely around the extremely low thermal neutron absorption cross-section of beryllium, and the authors have devoted special attention to the nuclear properties of the metal and to its uses in reactors. Not without justification, detailed consideration has been given to the health hazards arising in the handling of beryllium-containing materials and to their control. The book is well written and the reader would have difficultyin criticising either the presentation of the extensive information contained in its twelve chapters or in suggesting how this information could be elaborated. With the additional help of the copious references included, this book should enable anyone seeking the latest knowledge on the subject it covers adequately to satisfy his requirements. As the latest monograph in the series on the metallurgy of the rarer metals the book fully maintains the high standard set by its predecessors. J.W.C. J. Less-Common Metals, 2 (1960) 404
3e Colloque de Mbtallurgie SW la Corrosion (3rd Metallurgy Symposium on Corrosion), North Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam, 1960, 240 pages, 38.00 guilders, E 3.12s. This Colloquium on the corrosion of metals and alloys under dry and aqueous conditions contains eighteen authoritative papers dealing with many aspects of the fundamental and practical significance of this important subject. The first paper considers existing theories of oxidation and examines the results obtained in recent studies of oxidation phenomena. Further papers deal with the inhibition of the corrosion of magnesium heated in wet air; with the gaseous attack of magnesium and uranium; with the corrosion of stainless steels by pure water at high temperature; with the stress corrosion cracking of Inconel in high-temperature water; with the corrosion of steels by hydrogen sulphide; with the morphology of oxidation films; and with the influence of hydrogen on the corrosion of zirconium and its alloys in high-temperature water. In a short review it is impossible to refer individually to all of the papers that make up this compilation, but while some have been specifically mentioned it is not to be inferred that the remainder are of any less interest or importance. Only a few of the papers deal with metals falling exactly within the terms of reference of the Journal of the Less-Common Metals, but readers of that Journal wishing to acquaint themselves with recent work in the corrosion field would do well to refer to this publication. Much of the fundamental information it contains is, of course, applicable to common and less-common metals alike, and the fact that many of the papers do not deal directly with the latter does not detract from the value of the book as a contribution to basic knowledge on a subject with which many less-common metals are closely associated. J. W.C. J. Less-Common Metals, 2 (1960) 404