Abstract
FOR twenty-eight years, Dr. Cecil Desch's "Metallography"has served admirably as a standard text-book for students of physical metallurgy, and had previously run through three editions. The last of these, however, goes back to 1922, and therefore a new and revised edition was considered desirable. This has involved the re-writing of most of the book as well as the introduction of new topics; among the latter are the improved technique of thermal analysis and of microscopic examination, the changes occurring in solid alloys (including age-hardening and the order-disorder transformation) and the processes of mechanical deformation. A section dealing with developments on the X-ray side has been contributed by G. D. Preston.
Metallography
By Dr. Cecil H. Desch. Fourth edition. Pp. viii + 402 + 17 plates. London, New York and Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., 1937.) 21s. net.
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Metallography. Nature 142, 936 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142936c0
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