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N.B. Hannay, Solid-state chemistry
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A. HOLDES AND C. SANDORFY, J. Mol. Spectry., 20 (1966) 262. Gmefins’ Handbuch der anorganischen Chemie, 16C(P) (1965) 20 1_ R. S. HALFORD, .I_Chem. Phys.. 14 (1946) 8. B. WILSON, J. C. DECIUS AND P. C. CROSS, Molecular Vibrations, McGraw-Hill New York, 1955. 14 E. STEGER AND K. HERZOG, Z. Anorg. Allgem. Chem., 331 (1964) 169.
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Received September 27th, 1967 J. Mol. Structure,
1 (1967-68) 397-401
BOOK REXIEWS
B. HANNAY, Solid-State 225 pages. Price 40 5. N.
Chemistry,
Prentice-Hall,
Englewood Cliffs, 1967,
This is the first of a projected series of authoritative accounts to be issued under the general title of Fundamental Topics in Physical Chemistry, and under the editorship of Professor Harold S. Johnston whose declared intention is to provide a series of relatively brief and inexpensive texts to support his thesis “that physical chemistry is not a body of knowledge that must be covered, but rather a set of methods for predicting chemical events”. This book contains eleven chapters devoted to discussions of the nature and electronic structures of solids, imperfections and physical properties, atom movements in solids, structural transformations, chemical reactions in solids, the properties of surfaces in relation to adsorption, heterogeneous catalysis and electrode processes, and a final chapter on methods of preparation of materials. The author has a pleasantly crisp style of writing, his descriptions are concise, yet clear. The book is essentially non-mathematical in its development; and any mathematical ideas that are introduced are fully explained and painlessly developed. Each chapter carries a short set of relevant illustrative exercises with answers. The book is well-produced, with ciear diagrams (except for an incomplete legend. to Fig. 3.6), and is almost free from typographical errors. The reviewer noted only one near the foot of p. 102, where the word “however” has been displaced from the beginning of a sentence to the end of the preceding one. However, despite all these virtues, the price appears to. be rather excessive. T-H. J. Mol. Structure,
1 (1967-68) 401
401
COMMUNICATION
10 11 12 13
A. HOLDES AND C. SANDORFY, J. Mol. Spectry., 20 (1966) 262. Gmefins’ Handbuch der anorganischen Chemie, 16C(P) (1965) 20 1_ R. S. HALFORD, .I_Chem. Phys.. 14 (1946) 8. B. WILSON, J. C. DECIUS AND P. C. CROSS, Molecular Vibrations, McGraw-Hill New York, 1955. 14 E. STEGER AND K. HERZOG, Z. Anorg. Allgem. Chem., 331 (1964) 169.
Book Co.,
Received September 27th, 1967 J. Mol. Structure,
1 (1967-68) 397-401
BOOK REXIEWS
B. HANNAY, Solid-State 225 pages. Price 40 5. N.
Chemistry,
Prentice-Hall,
Englewood Cliffs, 1967,
This is the first of a projected series of authoritative accounts to be issued under the general title of Fundamental Topics in Physical Chemistry, and under the editorship of Professor Harold S. Johnston whose declared intention is to provide a series of relatively brief and inexpensive texts to support his thesis “that physical chemistry is not a body of knowledge that must be covered, but rather a set of methods for predicting chemical events”. This book contains eleven chapters devoted to discussions of the nature and electronic structures of solids, imperfections and physical properties, atom movements in solids, structural transformations, chemical reactions in solids, the properties of surfaces in relation to adsorption, heterogeneous catalysis and electrode processes, and a final chapter on methods of preparation of materials. The author has a pleasantly crisp style of writing, his descriptions are concise, yet clear. The book is essentially non-mathematical in its development; and any mathematical ideas that are introduced are fully explained and painlessly developed. Each chapter carries a short set of relevant illustrative exercises with answers. The book is well-produced, with ciear diagrams (except for an incomplete legend. to Fig. 3.6), and is almost free from typographical errors. The reviewer noted only one near the foot of p. 102, where the word “however” has been displaced from the beginning of a sentence to the end of the preceding one. However, despite all these virtues, the price appears to. be rather excessive. T-H. J. Mol. Structure,
1 (1967-68) 401