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PROF. RIEGEL'S book provides an admirable survey of modern industrial chemistry which is suited to the needs of the student and the general reader. The various sections have been written with the collaboration of experts and give in a concise form a wealth of authoritative information. The topics include mineral acids and alkalis, nitrogen products, phosphates, fertilizers, cements, ceramics, glass, fuels, water, coal products, electrothermal and electrolytic processes, petroleum, and the important organic chemical industries such as the manufacture of dyes, pigments, oils, explosives, rubber, etc. There are also good chapters on chemical plant and instruments of control, and on the metallurgy of iron and steel, copper and other common metals, and on the platinum metals and radium. The treatment is sufficiently detailed to be really useful, and the book is well illustrated and indexed. There are references to standard treatises and to recent articles in journals- the latter mostly American.
Industrial Chemistry
an Elementary Treatise for the Student and General Reader. By Prof. Emil Ramond Riegel. Third edition. Pp. 851. (New York: Reinhold Publishing Corporation ; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1937.) 28s. 6d. net.
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Industrial Chemistry. Nature 142, 856 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142856b0
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