Abstract
THE second edition of this work, like the first, is well adapted to introduce the general student to the subject, the theoretical portions and the accounts of experimental procedure being well balanced. The amount of revision, however, appears, on examination, to be rather less than the author's remarks in the preface lead one to expect. Thus the “alency Rule” still appears in its old and, as recent shattering criticism has shown, very spurious simplicity. Although earlier “complex” heories are given, Pauli's later and more thorough work is not mentioned. Recent results on protection and anomalous, adsorption might also have found a place. With a subject in constant flux it is of course difficult to draw the line, but the author appears to have done so distinctly on the side of caution. In spite of these defects the book is still one of the most useful general text-books of colloid chemistry available in English.
The Chemistry of Colloids and Some Technical Applications.
Dr.
W. W.
Taylor
By. Second edition. Pp. viii + 332. (London: Edward Arnold and Co., 1921.) 10s. 6d. net.
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The Chemistry of Colloids and Some Technical Applications . Nature 109, 204 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109204c0
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