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RANDALL AND YOUNG'S book is described on the cover as for second- and third-year college students and as a broad survey of elementary physical chemistry. It is not easy to equate this with a corresponding treatment in Great Britain. Some of the topics are elaborated in great detail and others, in the reviewer's opinion, are considerably advanced. The early introduction of the idea of flow-sheets for simple reactions is a novelty, and the precise definitions of concentrations and the implications which flow from them is a good but unusual feature in elementary books of this kind.
Elementary Physical Chemistry
By Prof. M. Randall Prof. L. Esther Young. Pp. xiv + 455. (Berkeley, Calif.: Randall and Sons, 1942.) 4.50 dollars.
Introduction to Physical Chemistry
By Prof. Alexander Findlay. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Pp. vii + 582. (London, New York and Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., 1942.) 15s. net.
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Elementary Physical Chemistry Introduction to Physical Chemistry. Nature 153, 730 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153730a0
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