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Abstract

THE Committee appointed by the Institution of Petroleum Technologists to standardise methods of oil-testing has, under the above title, published its first report in the form of a concise manual. It was no easy task to criticise existing methods, to comment on relative advantages and disadvantages inherent thereto, to keep pace with current developments, and at the same time to issue an authoritative work formulating agreed methods of oil-analysis consistent with home and foreign procedures; but the Committee has acquitted itself well. A compromise between methods dictated by custom, previous decrees of the British Engineering Standards Association, publications of the American Society for Testing Material and the American Bureau of Standards, has been achieved, to the lasting benefit of petroleum chemists and the industry in general.

Institution of Petroleum Technologists. Standard Methods of Testing Petroleum and its Products.

Pp. x + 102. (London: Institution of Petroleum Technologists, 1924.) 6s. net.