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THE eighth volume of Mellor's “Comprehensive Treatise ” carries the simple sub-title N.P., recalling the equally simple sub-title of the first volume, H.O. It is in many respects a critical volume, since the chemistry of nitrogen (and in a lesser degree the same statement may be made of phosphorus) has undergone an extensive transformation in many of its aspects since the first volume of the treatise was issued in 1922, and it might very well have happened that the treatise would have lagged behind, and shown signs of being a little out-of-date at this stage. A study of the new volume immediately dispels this fear, since the author has had an almost uncanny success in searching out even the least pretentious of post-War publications and setting them in place in his narrative.
A Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry.
By Dr. J. W. Mellor. Vol. 8: N. P. Pp. x + 1110. (London: Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., 1928.) 63s. net.
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Nitrogen and Phosphorus. Nature 122, 525 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122525a0
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