Abstract
ACCORDING to the preface, this is not intended as a text-book, but as an attempt to give some account of modern chemistry to the general reader. It should fulfil this object: the style is bright and interesting, the matter appears to be accurate, and an extensive field is covered-very superficially for a text-book; but probably adequately for the intended reader. There is perhaps too great tendency to “sensational” topics-the frontispiece representing a well-known man of science “bombarding” atoms half the size of himself with “nuclei of helium “as big as cricket balls, and producing a pyrotechnic display, is an example of what we mean by this criticism. There are good half-tone plates, but the line-drawings are poor.
Chemistry of To-day: The Mysteries of Chemistry lucidly explained in a Popular and Interesting Manner free from all Technicalities and Formul.
P. G.
Bull
By. Pp. 311. (London: Seeley, Service and Co., Ltd., 1923.) 8s. 6d. net.
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Chemistry of To-day: The Mysteries of Chemistry lucidly explained in a Popular and Interesting Manner free from all Technicalities and Formul . Nature 111, 145 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111145d0
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