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THE new edition of “The Chemists' Year Book” has been revised in the sections on fuels and illuminants, crystallography, and cellulose, while the section on coal-tar has been completely rewritten. There are some inaccuracies to be noticed in the section on “Notable Dates in the History of Chemistry,” but the numerical data appear to have been edited carefully in accordance with recent work. The section on acid and alkali manufacture is too brief to be of much value, though in some cases in which the book has been tested it has shown itself superior to other more ambitious works. The exact meaning of “percentage” in density tables, for instance, is given in cases where other compilations are quite ambiguous.
The Chemists' Year Book, 1921.
F. W.
Atack
Edited by. assisted by L. Whinyates. Vol. 1, pp. vi + 422; vol. 2, pp. vii–viii + 423–1142. (Manchester: Sherratt and Hughes, 1921.)
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The Chemists' Year Book, 1921 . Nature 108, 9 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/108009b0
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