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Spectrochemical Analysis
Book review
Book review AHBENS, L. H.; Prees, 1960. 8 lO.---
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Analysts
Pp. 269 + 74
Cambridge,
Msas., Addison-Wesley
This book is of psrtiouler interest to workers engaged in the a&y&s of rocks and minerals, as it deels solely with speotrochemic81 methods using D. C. arc exoitcltion, 8 source well suited to such materials end in fsct often the only method applicable to them. It indicate8 the possibilities end limit&ions of speOtroohemic818n8lysisfor such work, pcrrticulerly 8s far 8s trece elements are concerned. The determinetion of mejor constituents is however not ignored. Dr. AHRENS, who is in oh8rge of the Cabot gpectrogmphic Lsborutory in the Depcutment of Geology of the Msssaehusetts Institute of Technology, hes dealt with technique rather than equipment, and hss thus concentrated much valuable notation into quite sm8ll bulk. But it is not only to the pm&sing 8malyst that this book will be of v8lue. Every geochemist should read the second psrt, deeline; with the determin8tion of individual elements. Limits of detection, accumoy and e8se of determinetion 8re treated fully, snd 8x1apprecietion of the fsctom involved will enable the geochemist to interpret much more scttisfectorily the data which the analyst puts before him. R. L. MITCHECL
Book review AHBENS, L. H.; Prees, 1960. 8 lO.---
S~~c~e~~~
Analysts
Pp. 269 + 74
Cambridge,
Msas., Addison-Wesley
This book is of psrtiouler interest to workers engaged in the a&y&s of rocks and minerals, as it deels solely with speotrochemic81 methods using D. C. arc exoitcltion, 8 source well suited to such materials end in fsct often the only method applicable to them. It indicate8 the possibilities end limit&ions of speOtroohemic818n8lysisfor such work, pcrrticulerly 8s far 8s trece elements are concerned. The determinetion of mejor constituents is however not ignored. Dr. AHRENS, who is in oh8rge of the Cabot gpectrogmphic Lsborutory in the Depcutment of Geology of the Msssaehusetts Institute of Technology, hes dealt with technique rather than equipment, and hss thus concentrated much valuable notation into quite sm8ll bulk. But it is not only to the pm&sing 8malyst that this book will be of v8lue. Every geochemist should read the second psrt, deeline; with the determin8tion of individual elements. Limits of detection, accumoy and e8se of determinetion 8re treated fully, snd 8x1apprecietion of the fsctom involved will enable the geochemist to interpret much more scttisfectorily the data which the analyst puts before him. R. L. MITCHECL