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Ionic interactions. From dilute solutions to fused salts
J. Chem. Thermodynamics 1972,4,647-653
Book Ionic Interactions.
Reviews From Dilute Solutions
to Fused Salts
Volume I. Equilibrium and Mass Transport. 407 pp; f9.10. Volume II. Kinetics and Structure. 279 pp. ; g7.70. Edited by S. Petrucci. Academic Press, New York and London, 197 1. These volumes are timely reviews of the now expanding study of electrolytes, and bear comparison with others of the genre. Although the editor states a hope that “a unified study emerges”, in fact these are collections of short monographs akin to others in this field. Volume I will be of most interest to readers of this journal, and the first two chapters, by Falkenhagen and his colleagues in Restock, immediately establish the value of this book. Students of electrolytes having to advance from Debye-Htickel formulations will be grateful for a re-derivation, without the diagram techniques, of the cluster expansion for the free energy, which includes both the limiting law and further terms without the Debye-Hiickel approximations. While no dramatic development has yet ensued, there have been modest advances in the concentration ranges treated. The work reported is largely that of the Restock school. Chapter 3 by the editor, “Statistical Mechanics of Ionic Association”, is a rather discursive, sometimes interesting, largely American account of elaborations of the Bjerrum theory, with a survey of experimental methods. (Contrary to one bibliographic entry, I doubt if Prue has ever been co-author with C. W. Davies.) Braunstein on “Molten Salts and Concentrated Aqueous Electrolytes” leaning heavily on B.E.T. formulations of ionic hydration and the Temkin “model” of melts, fails to establish the commonality of treatment implied by the title. Moynihan finally reviews the complex problem of “Mass Transport in Fused Salts”. Volume II opens with Langford and Petrucci, respectively, discussing exchange kinetics and relaxation processes, and concludes with chapters on u.v.-visible, and vibrational, spectra, by Holt and Irish respectively. Each chapter is a solid review of the state of the art, again without demonstrating much interdisciplinary cohesion (p. 232). The books contain the expected number of discountable errors, and literarily are perhaps sometimes continental. The symbolism fails to maintain uniformity, and it would be a boon if, as elsewhere, the authors omitted factors of 10’ from equations when they mentally (and so, subjectively) shift gear from cm3 to litres. Such carping apart, these volumes are good of their kind. D. R. ROSSEINSKY
Book Ionic Interactions.
Reviews From Dilute Solutions
to Fused Salts
Volume I. Equilibrium and Mass Transport. 407 pp; f9.10. Volume II. Kinetics and Structure. 279 pp. ; g7.70. Edited by S. Petrucci. Academic Press, New York and London, 197 1. These volumes are timely reviews of the now expanding study of electrolytes, and bear comparison with others of the genre. Although the editor states a hope that “a unified study emerges”, in fact these are collections of short monographs akin to others in this field. Volume I will be of most interest to readers of this journal, and the first two chapters, by Falkenhagen and his colleagues in Restock, immediately establish the value of this book. Students of electrolytes having to advance from Debye-Htickel formulations will be grateful for a re-derivation, without the diagram techniques, of the cluster expansion for the free energy, which includes both the limiting law and further terms without the Debye-Hiickel approximations. While no dramatic development has yet ensued, there have been modest advances in the concentration ranges treated. The work reported is largely that of the Restock school. Chapter 3 by the editor, “Statistical Mechanics of Ionic Association”, is a rather discursive, sometimes interesting, largely American account of elaborations of the Bjerrum theory, with a survey of experimental methods. (Contrary to one bibliographic entry, I doubt if Prue has ever been co-author with C. W. Davies.) Braunstein on “Molten Salts and Concentrated Aqueous Electrolytes” leaning heavily on B.E.T. formulations of ionic hydration and the Temkin “model” of melts, fails to establish the commonality of treatment implied by the title. Moynihan finally reviews the complex problem of “Mass Transport in Fused Salts”. Volume II opens with Langford and Petrucci, respectively, discussing exchange kinetics and relaxation processes, and concludes with chapters on u.v.-visible, and vibrational, spectra, by Holt and Irish respectively. Each chapter is a solid review of the state of the art, again without demonstrating much interdisciplinary cohesion (p. 232). The books contain the expected number of discountable errors, and literarily are perhaps sometimes continental. The symbolism fails to maintain uniformity, and it would be a boon if, as elsewhere, the authors omitted factors of 10’ from equations when they mentally (and so, subjectively) shift gear from cm3 to litres. Such carping apart, these volumes are good of their kind. D. R. ROSSEINSKY