Abstract
THE subject of “Dielectric Polarisation” acquired a new interest and importance, to chemists as well as to physicists, when Debye in 1912 showed how the dipole moment of a gas could be deduced from the temperature coefficient of the dielectric constant, and J. J. Thomson in 1914 showed how, either by this method or by comparing the dielectric constant with the square of the refractive index, gases could be divided into two classes, according as their molecules do or do not possess a permanent dipole moment. Subsequent years have been marked by intense activity in correlating dipole moments with molecular structure, and especially with the configuration of molecules in space of three dimensions. In this way, many physico-chemical problems have already been definitely solved, and other subjects, such as the principle of free rotation, have been illustrated and elucidated. A monograph of 234 pages, with more than 60 figures, is supplemented by a table containing all the previously determined dipole moments, with references to 319 papers in which the data in question are recorded.
Hand- und Jahrbuch der chemischen Physik
A.
Eucken
K. L.
Wolf
Herausgegeben von. Band 6: Elektrizität und Materie. Abschnitt 1B: Dielektrische Polarisation. Von O. Fuchs und K. L. Wolf. Pp. x + 237–460 + 12. (Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsbuchhandlung G.m.b.H., 1935.) 27 gold marks.
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Hand- und Jahrbuch der chemischen Physik. Nature 136, 816 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136816d0
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