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THIS part of Dr. Friend's “Inorganic Chemistry” deals with the triad of alkaline earth metals (calcium, strontium, barium) and with radium and its compounds. It contains an immense amount of detail, as is indicated by the fact that the footnotes include on the average at least one reference for every three or four lines in the text; but for this very reason the book is much more suitable for use as a work of reference than for continuous reading. In accordance with general policy, illustrations have been restricted to half-a-dozen equilibrium diagrams, and no figures are given of the plant used to manufacture products such as calcium carbide, cement, or glass. Special attention has been paid to agricultural questions arising out of the use of calcium cyanamide and of calcium phosphates as fertilisers.
A Text-Book of Inorganic Chemistry.
Dr.
J. Newton
Friend
Edited by. Vol. 3, Part 1: The Alkaline, Earth Metals. By Dr. May Sybil Burr (née Leslie). (Griffin's Scientific Text-Books.) Pp. xxvi + 346. (London: C. Griffin and Co., Ltd., 1925.) 20s. net.
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A Text-Book of Inorganic Chemistry . Nature 117, 853 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/117853c0
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