A Handbook of Colloid-Chemistry The Recognition of Colloids, the Theory of Colloids, and their General Physico-Chemical Properties

Abstract

THE increasing recognition of the importance of a study of colloidal matter, both for physical theory and for industrial practice, has led to a growing demand for text-books dealing specially with this branch of science. Hitherto this demand has been chiefly met by works in the German language or by translations of these, and of such works the one before us has for a number of years occupied a foremost place. This, doubtless, is due in no small measure to the marked activity of the author both as an investigator and as editor of the Kolloid-Zeitschrift. Wolfgang Ostwald possesses in no small degree the literary facility of his father; and although this facility leads sometimes to an over-wordiness of expression, the author has had considerable success in directing the attention of wide circles of workers to the importance of the study of colloids.

A Handbook of Colloid-Chemistry. The Recognition of Colloids, the Theory of Colloids, and their General Physico-Chemical Properties.

By Dr. Wolfgang Ostwald. Second English edition, translated from the third German edition by Prof. Martin H. Fischer. With numerous notes added by Emil Hatschek. Pp. xvi + 284. (London: J. and A. Churchill, 1919.) Price 15s. net.