Chemical synonyms and trade names

Chemical synonyms and trade names

176 [J. F. I BOOK REVIEWS. presentation cli the periodic system as a frontispiece. Text, presswork and paper are all very satisfactory. It seems to...

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[J. F. I

BOOK REVIEWS.

presentation cli the periodic system as a frontispiece. Text, presswork and paper are all very satisfactory. It seems to tGe reviewer that the line has been drawn rather too strictly in the description of the uranium salts. Being a work on “ Inorganic Chemiztry,” it is reasonable that salts of organic acids should not he considered hut the douhlc and triple uranium salts containing sodium, having the peculiar property of high insolubility in water, especially in excess of the reagent, seem The insolubility of sodium magto require more than the brbief notice given. nesium uranium acetate and its very high molecular weight. of which only a small part is that of the sodium itself. suggest the possibility of direct determination of the latter element. The titration of uranium with permanganate is stated to he much less satisfactory than is expressed in the eleventh edition of Sutton’s “ Volumetric Analysis ” (1924, p. 350). HEKRY CHENICI\L

S\-NIJSSMS .4x11TIWD~ NAMES. By William tion, revised and much enlarged. 355 pages, 8vo. Nostrand Company, 1926. Price, $7.50.

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The first edition of this book was issued some years ago. It has l)ccn kept up to date hy a couple of issues in the intermediate period and now appears in a formal third edition very much enlarged. It is a very useful hook. Time was when chemists, pharmacists and manufacturers had in most cases hut one name for each of the common chemicals, hut the ,development of chemistry and the necessary extension of nomenclature has brought about a separation of titles. ” Butter yellow ” is satisfactory to the maker and user : “ dimetliyl-amino-azo-benzene.” the chemist’s name, is adapted only to the laboratory. The hook is timely, containing approximately twenty thousand definitions and cross references. The general features of the work were set forth in HEXKV LEFFMASN. the review of the first edition. PRACTICAL PHI-SIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY:

in Practical Science. By Ph.D. Ninth 273 figures. 1926. Price,

A Book Designed for Use in Courses Physiological Chemistry in Schools of Medicine and of Philip B. Hawk, M.S., Ph.D.. and Olaf Bergeim, M.S., xviii-931 pages, 8 plates. edition, revised and enlarged. Philadelphia, P. Blakistons Son and Company. Copyright, $6.50.

In the ninth edition of this deservedly popular treatise, Dr. Olaf Bergeim appears as a co-author. Seven new chapters have been added: all the chapters The have been revised and enlarged, and several have been entirely rewritten. new chapters arc devoted to: “ Physical Chemistry of True and Colloidal Solutions,” “ Ahsorption.” “ Putrefaction and Detoxication,” ” The Chemistry of the Blood-tissue Analysis,” “ Respiratory Metaholism and Neutrality Rcgulation.” ” The Endocrine Organs,” “ Energy Metabolism.” The chapter on Absorption descrihcs the absorption of the products of digestion from the intestinal tract. The chapter on Putrefaction and Detoxication is devoted to the processes of putrefaction and the mechanism of the animal organism for the conversion of the products of putrefaction into physiologically inert compounds.