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THIS is a new edition of Mr. Lowe's book, and gives a popular description of the present-day knowledge and experience as to the painting of iron and steel structures. The best method of painting such structures has been for some time attracting the attention of chemists and others in the United States, where a large amount of experimental work has been done, and some very curious and interesting results have been arrived at. Mr. Lowe is familiar with these various experimental tests, and has brought the results together in a convenient and popular form in his little book. There are, of course, a great many interesting chemical problems lying behind the question of the painting and rusting of iron and steel structures, which cannot yet be considered as having been solved, and therefore much that can be said in a book of this kind is tentative. On the other hand, the experience gained by experimental tests, although sometimes difficult to explain scientifically, is of value to the practical man, and guides him as to what it is best to do.
Paints for Steel Structures.
By Houston Lowe. Fifth edition, revised. Pp. 115. (New York: John Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1910.) Price 4s. 6d. net.
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L., A. Paints for Steel Structures . Nature 86, 346 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/086346c0
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