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THE author remarks that, although the industrial applications of carbon are numerous and very specialised, the literature on the subject is scattered and often contradictory. He has therefore performed a very useful service in presenting the information on the technological uses of elementary carbon, apart from fuels, in a compact and critical form. The subjects dealt with include diamonds, natural and artificial graphites, carbon black and lampblack, adsorbent charcoal, electrodes and brushes, arc carbons, refractories and minor uses. The treatment is good, although the information on active carbons is rather sketchy and not easily followed. The treatment of electrodes is full, and here, as in other parts of the book, there are useful tables and curves.
Industrial Carbon.
By Dr. C. L. Mantell. (Industrial Chemical Monographs.) Pp. ix + 410. (London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1928.) 21s. net.
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Chemistry. Nature 124, 537 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124537a0
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