Solvent Extraction Chemistry of Metals

JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS

21 (1967)356. CORTEX-HOLLAND PUBLISHINQ CO., A~STERDA~~

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H. A. C. MCKAY, T. V. HEALY, I. L. JENKINS

energies

and A. NAYLOR, Solvent Extraction

mixtures,

of Metals (McMillan, London, 105s).

1965, 456 pages,

Conference

sponsored

Authority

by the United

which

was

Windscale

in 1965. Twenty-five

presented,

mainly

extraction Nearly

at

one half

in the

research

atomic

of these papers

applications

of

extractants,

whilst

tributyl

applications

of amine

industry.

and

Of the contribut,ions

field, three are concerned

of

solvent

metallurgy, factors

ext,raction

whilst

governing

extraction

this

book

interested

it, will be of greatest energy

lying

methods

(A.

S.

phase

in

Kertes)

outside with t,he

ext,ractive deals

formation

with

in solvent

systems.

Although generally

one third

related

and acid phosphate

ester extra~tan~. use

with

of contributions

the atomic

energy

are

of solvent

are concerned

numbers

and

papers

energy

phosphate

smaller

Atomic

Harwell

dealing with applications

methods

deal with

Kingdom

held

will

have

in solvent

utility

for

extraction

appeal to members

former

students

Professor birthday. interest

The to

Chemistry

and past

Hakon

Flood papers

the

A.

which

of papers and present

deal

Professor

honour

associates

by of

his sixtieth

mainly

with

School

of

Flood

founded

it has been produced

topics

Molten

of Salt

in

the

and the editors

have brought together a group of papers which well reflect the present state of knowledge concerning the physical chemistry of molten salts and glasses and of some industrial high temperature The first five papers deal with

with

Froyland,

group

of four

and

liquid

Knapp

papers

concern

mixtures

equilibria

between

the

of

aluminium

reduction Holm,

Derge,

Muan,

of

silicon

in

electrolysis

alumina:

Krohn.

by the editors,

index.

It

Sandberg,

Get&en,

Crjotheim, Herstad

metallurgist

interest

and to the chemist

and other

high

temperature

and

of Professor

a list of his publications

is of undoubted

arc

and the carbothermic

Schei,

Thoristad,

aspects

a submerged

Motzfelt. The book also includes an app~ciation Flood

Krogh-

deals with physicochemical

production

furnace,

aspects of salts,

and Urnes.

The last group of

silieat,es:

Os-

and Gruen.

oxide and alloy phases, and st~ctural Moe,

systems:

Landberg,

Oye

of metals with sulphur or tellurium, glasses

being

such

Forland,

Rosenblatt,

halide

and an

to the extraction

Gonoerned with melts

systems. F. D. RICFIARDSON

B. HIRSCH, A. HOWRIE, R. B. NXC~OLSO~, D. W. PASHLEY and M. J. WHELAN, Electron

Technical University of Norway, and which has flourished mainly on account of his lively inspiration and enthusiasm. The book is worthy of the man in whose

next

concerned

in

authors

P.

EVEREST

produced

to commemorate

Norwegian

Tognri, Crrjotheim,

structure of the

readers

T. FORLAND,K. GRJOTHEIM,K.MOTZBELT and S. URNES (Editors),Selected Topics in High Temperature Chemistry (Universitets Forlaget, Oslo, 1966, 210 pages, N.Kr. 50. - , 50 shilling). is a collection

anyone

extent

of most

of the atomic D.

book

Kleppa,

some

names

chemistry

industry.

This

to

The

of an International

to

the

familiar turld,

This book covers the proceedings Energy

Chemistry

and

processes. entropies and free

Microscopy of Thin Crystals (London, worths, 1965, 549 pages, 150s.). This

text

electron theoretical

of electrons

to enable

micrographs on this

based

reason,

vademecum

seeks to gain of

from

the

as possible.

Cambridge on actual

a number

for the

a thorough

scattering

t~nsparent

him to interpret

as fully

a successful

therefore

who

~derstan~ng

diffraction films,

is a comprehensive

microscopist

Butter-

and

crystalline

the features The

summer teaching

of numerical

book

of his

isbased

school

and

experience; and

is for

graphical

problems, complete with answers, is included. While there is a short chapter on specimen preparation techniques, this subject is covered more thoroughly in other recent books. The rest of the book, however,

probably

has

no rival

for

its

scope

and

comprehensiveness. The book should be regarded as an essential accessory for all electron microscopes. R.

356

W.

CAHN