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The properties of liquid metals
Journal
of the
Less-Common
Met&
477
Elsevier Sequoia S.A., Lausanne - Printed in the Netherlands
Book Reviews The Properties of Liquid Metals. Edited by P. D. ADAMS, H. A. DAVIES AND S. G. EPSTEIN, published by Taylor and Francis Ltd., 1967; vi+602 pp., price: S7.15.0, US$ 22.00.
At one time, a “liquid metal” was simply a metal in the fluid state and of interest only to metallurgists. In recent years however, much theoretical and experimental research work has been carried out on the liquid state of metals, as a result of which it has become of considerable interest not only to metallurgists but also to physicists, chemists, technologists and others. This volume has been reprinted, with the original pagination, from “Advances in Physics” Vol. 16, 1967, parts 62163164, and contains the papers presented at the International Conference on the Properties of Liquid Metals held at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, U.S.A., in 1966, under the auspices of the U.S.il.E.C. and the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics. The main emphasis at the Conference was on the structural and electronic properties of liquid metals, with short sessions concerned with the thermodynamic properties and the still relatively new field of mass transport. The book is, accordingly, concerned essentially with the physical and physico-chemical properties of liquid metals and with theories about their structures; other properties of liquid metals, such as their chemical reactivities or their behaviour as reaction media or as coolants in fast-neutron reactors, are not under consideration. The present volume contains 56 original papers, together with abstracts of 3 others which have been published in full elsewhere, on various aspects of the properties of liquid metals. The papers are roughly classified under seven headings which include : structure and scattering in liquid metals, mass transport and electron states in liquid metals and alloys, the thermodynamic and electron transport properties of liquid metals and alloys, and the relationship between metal theory and liquid state theory. Each group of papers covers a range of topics, which are well illustrated by 248 diagrams in all, and by many tables. The book is well bound and will form a valuable and convenient guide to current thought in these matters. F.F.
Metallphysik. By GUSTAV E. R. SCHULZE, published by Akademie-Verlag, 1967; 458 pp.; price 48.- MDN.
Berlin,
This book, which is attractively produced, includes groups of chapters on the structure and state of metals, mechanical and thermal working of ideal crystals, The properties of real crystals and interchange processes, and on electrical and magnetic properties. It covers the whole range of metal physics and manages to give, in each section, a thorough treatment up to a fairly advanced undergraduate level. J. Less-Common
Metals, 14 (1968)
of the
Less-Common
Met&
477
Elsevier Sequoia S.A., Lausanne - Printed in the Netherlands
Book Reviews The Properties of Liquid Metals. Edited by P. D. ADAMS, H. A. DAVIES AND S. G. EPSTEIN, published by Taylor and Francis Ltd., 1967; vi+602 pp., price: S7.15.0, US$ 22.00.
At one time, a “liquid metal” was simply a metal in the fluid state and of interest only to metallurgists. In recent years however, much theoretical and experimental research work has been carried out on the liquid state of metals, as a result of which it has become of considerable interest not only to metallurgists but also to physicists, chemists, technologists and others. This volume has been reprinted, with the original pagination, from “Advances in Physics” Vol. 16, 1967, parts 62163164, and contains the papers presented at the International Conference on the Properties of Liquid Metals held at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, U.S.A., in 1966, under the auspices of the U.S.il.E.C. and the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics. The main emphasis at the Conference was on the structural and electronic properties of liquid metals, with short sessions concerned with the thermodynamic properties and the still relatively new field of mass transport. The book is, accordingly, concerned essentially with the physical and physico-chemical properties of liquid metals and with theories about their structures; other properties of liquid metals, such as their chemical reactivities or their behaviour as reaction media or as coolants in fast-neutron reactors, are not under consideration. The present volume contains 56 original papers, together with abstracts of 3 others which have been published in full elsewhere, on various aspects of the properties of liquid metals. The papers are roughly classified under seven headings which include : structure and scattering in liquid metals, mass transport and electron states in liquid metals and alloys, the thermodynamic and electron transport properties of liquid metals and alloys, and the relationship between metal theory and liquid state theory. Each group of papers covers a range of topics, which are well illustrated by 248 diagrams in all, and by many tables. The book is well bound and will form a valuable and convenient guide to current thought in these matters. F.F.
Metallphysik. By GUSTAV E. R. SCHULZE, published by Akademie-Verlag, 1967; 458 pp.; price 48.- MDN.
Berlin,
This book, which is attractively produced, includes groups of chapters on the structure and state of metals, mechanical and thermal working of ideal crystals, The properties of real crystals and interchange processes, and on electrical and magnetic properties. It covers the whole range of metal physics and manages to give, in each section, a thorough treatment up to a fairly advanced undergraduate level. J. Less-Common
Metals, 14 (1968)