Abstract
THE handy little book of alcohol tables prepared by the late Dr. Stevenson has been out of print now for several years, and a convenient volume, arranged on similar lines and brought up to date, has been a long-felt want. This is fully supplied by the tables under notice, which were compiled under Sir Edward Thorpe's directions at the Government Laboratory. They are based, as regards their main portion, upon the work of Blagden and Gilpin, Drinkwater, Mendeléeff, and the Kaiserliche Normal Eichungs Kommission. The first table shows the percentage of alcohol by weight and by volume, and the percentage of fiscal proof spirit, in aqueous solutions of ethyl alcohol of different specific gravities. The latter are given to four places of decimals, but for the even numbers only (e.g., 0.9172, 0.9174, etc.). The one criticism suggested is whether it would not have been worth while to include the odd numbers as well. True, this would have made the book about half as large again, but it would have saved the user many small calculations.
Alcoholometric Tables.
By Sir Edward Thorpe. Pp. xiv + 91. (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1915.) Price 3s. 6d. net.
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Alcoholometric Tables . Nature 96, 201–202 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/096201b0
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