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MAURICE LECAT has compiled a bibliography of the phenomenon of azeotropism. The main subject is the formation of mixtures of constant boiling point, which was studied with so much interest and success in the case of aqueous acids by Roscoe in 1880; but other papers, dealing with the surface tension of mixtures of liquids, have also been included in the three lists which compose the bibliography. The principal list is in the form of an alphabetical index of authors, but there is a second list in order of dates and a third list under the titles of different journals. These supplementary lists refer back to the principal list, to which cross references are given by means of serial numbers, running up to 1,283 in the final entry under the name Zmaczynski. The author is himself a distinguished worker in this field, since his own writings are responsible for 49 of these numbers; but he has rendered an important service to science and industry by bringing together so large a collection of references, from Dart on (1813) to the autumn of 1932. The subject index corresponding to the bibliography now under review consists of a series of “Tables of Binary Azeotropes” of which 14 have already been issued and others are in preparation.
L’ Azéotropisme: la tension de vapeur, des mélanges de liquides; Bibliographie.
Par Maurice Lecat. Pp. viii + 134. (Bruxelles: Maurice Lamertin, 1932.) n.p.
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L., T. [Short Reviews]. Nature 132, 557 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132557b0
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