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Brimstone. The stone that burns
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REVIEWS
ing Volumes 1, 2, and 3 of Part I of the ?‘reatise is included in Volume 3 and individual indexes will be in each volume of Part I, beginning with Volume 4. A complete index to all volumes of Part I will be issued after all are published. Since each chapter is headed by an extensive and well organized table of contents, omission of an index is not too serious. Printing and paper are good, and the volume has an attractive cloth binding. The editors and contributors are to be thanked and congratulated for making available to analytical chemists a book that is authoritative, up to date, and stimulating to basic research in pure and applied analytical chemistry. The appearance of additional volumes to the Treatise on Analytical Chemistry will be awaited with keen interest by many analysts. John H. Yoe Department of Chemistry University of Virginia Chdottesville, Virginia
Brimstone. The Stone That Burns. WILLIAMS Nostrand, Princeton, N. J., 1959. xix + 308 pp.
Van
HAYNES.
$5.95.
The name Williams Haynes as the author is a sufficient guarantee of the quality of this book. It is based on a similar book published in 1942 but is completely The reader will find it hard to put down until rewritten and reads like a novel. The he is finished, even if he thinks he is not particularly interested in sulfur. history of this element is given from its use in medicine nearly 5000 years ago to The various methods of its present day role as the “Work Horse of Chemistry.” producing sulfur in different parts of the world are also described with, naturally, the southwestern United States and Herman Frasch getting most of the attention. The description of the first attempts in a Louisiana swamp to mine sulfur by the Frasch process contains as much suspense as a Perry Mason mystery story, and the chapters covering the financial angles, liberally sprinkled with names like Baruch, Morgan, Vanderbilt, and Rockefeller, read like a Wall Street register. Tomorrow,” is exactly what it says. Sulfur recovered The last chapter, ‘(-And from natural gas is here now and offers real competition to the industries based on the Frasch process. Offshore sulfur lies in the future but opens to the Frasch industry a new future, not yet proved, but surely extending beyond the main land reserves. The appendix, containing a handy table of the properties of sulfur and quantities of statistics on the production and use of sulfur, is a valuable reference source. The book is printed in a clear, readable type and is amply illustrated with photographs and drawings. Sulfur is basic to the chemical industry, and every chemist Moreover, he’ll have a good time doing it. will profit by reading this book. David B. Sabine U. S. Vitamin & Pharmaceutical Yonkers, New York MICROCHEMICAL
Corp.
JOURNAL,VOL.V,ISSUE
4
BOOK
REVIEWS
ing Volumes 1, 2, and 3 of Part I of the ?‘reatise is included in Volume 3 and individual indexes will be in each volume of Part I, beginning with Volume 4. A complete index to all volumes of Part I will be issued after all are published. Since each chapter is headed by an extensive and well organized table of contents, omission of an index is not too serious. Printing and paper are good, and the volume has an attractive cloth binding. The editors and contributors are to be thanked and congratulated for making available to analytical chemists a book that is authoritative, up to date, and stimulating to basic research in pure and applied analytical chemistry. The appearance of additional volumes to the Treatise on Analytical Chemistry will be awaited with keen interest by many analysts. John H. Yoe Department of Chemistry University of Virginia Chdottesville, Virginia
Brimstone. The Stone That Burns. WILLIAMS Nostrand, Princeton, N. J., 1959. xix + 308 pp.
Van
HAYNES.
$5.95.
The name Williams Haynes as the author is a sufficient guarantee of the quality of this book. It is based on a similar book published in 1942 but is completely The reader will find it hard to put down until rewritten and reads like a novel. The he is finished, even if he thinks he is not particularly interested in sulfur. history of this element is given from its use in medicine nearly 5000 years ago to The various methods of its present day role as the “Work Horse of Chemistry.” producing sulfur in different parts of the world are also described with, naturally, the southwestern United States and Herman Frasch getting most of the attention. The description of the first attempts in a Louisiana swamp to mine sulfur by the Frasch process contains as much suspense as a Perry Mason mystery story, and the chapters covering the financial angles, liberally sprinkled with names like Baruch, Morgan, Vanderbilt, and Rockefeller, read like a Wall Street register. Tomorrow,” is exactly what it says. Sulfur recovered The last chapter, ‘(-And from natural gas is here now and offers real competition to the industries based on the Frasch process. Offshore sulfur lies in the future but opens to the Frasch industry a new future, not yet proved, but surely extending beyond the main land reserves. The appendix, containing a handy table of the properties of sulfur and quantities of statistics on the production and use of sulfur, is a valuable reference source. The book is printed in a clear, readable type and is amply illustrated with photographs and drawings. Sulfur is basic to the chemical industry, and every chemist Moreover, he’ll have a good time doing it. will profit by reading this book. David B. Sabine U. S. Vitamin & Pharmaceutical Yonkers, New York MICROCHEMICAL
Corp.
JOURNAL,VOL.V,ISSUE
4