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ACCORDING to its subtitle, this book is “a description in non-technical language of the diverse and wonderful ways in which chemical forces are at work, and of their manifold application in modern life.” After some prefatory historical and theoretical matter, the reader is provided with a wealth of brightly-written and interesting information about fuel and its uses, explosives, low-temperature and high-temperature appliances, and spectroscopy. Modern phases of agricultural chemistry and of industries relating to sugar, starch, fats, and oils are discussed, and the concluding chapters give well-chosen illustrations of applied chemical science in relation to the adulteration of food, the utilisation of by-products, coal-tar products, large-scale electrolysis, solutions, crystals, and industrial catalysis. The last chapter illustrates vividly the part that “accident” has played in chemical discovery.
The Romance of Modern Chemistry.
By Dr. J. C. Philip. Pp. 348. (London: Seeley and Co., Ltd., 1910.) Price 5s.
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S., A. The Romance of Modern Chemistry . Nature 82, 455 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/082455a0
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