Abstract
Dr. J. F. SPENCER has written a very attractive book of pactical exercise in physical chemistry. It is an ementary book, describing experiments whic can be performed by boys and girls in the upper forms of schools. For this reason, complicated apparatus and tedious experiments have been avoided, and in certain cases new types of simple apparatus have been designed and put on the market, to enable additional experiments to be made, Since the requirements and possibilities of an elementary course in physical chemistry have now been to a large extent standardised, the detailed setting out of the work is more important than its scope, and for this reason Dr. Spencer may be congratulated on the clearness of the 89 diagrams which serve as illustrations to the 100 experiments, for which detailed instructions are given in the narrative of the text. The final test of such a book can only be applied under conditions of ‘active service’ in the laboratory, but from a preliminary inspection it appears likely that this test will be passed with credit, to the mutual advantage of all those who may be concerned in the enterprise.
Elementary Practical Physical Chemistry.
Dr.
James Frederick
Spencer
By. (Bell' Natural Science Series.) Pp. viii + 263. (London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1927.) 5s.
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Elementary Practical Physical Chemistry . Nature 120, 764 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120764c0
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