The Nature of Solution

L., T. M.

doi:10.1038/102101b0

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The Nature of Solution

T. M. L.

Nature volume 102, pages 101–102 (1918)Cite this article

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THE late Prof. H. C. Jones's book on “The Nature of Solution” represents undoubtedly his best and ripest work. The scope and outlook of the book are almost unexpectedly wide, in view of the somewhat closely specialised character of the author's own researches and of the enormous mass of detail which the generosity of the Carnegie Institution enabled him to pile up in connection with some three or four problems relating to the nature of solution. All this mass of reiterated detail, which compelled him to publish from time to time papers summarising the results of other papers, has been left behind in the present book, and the whole treatment of the subject is broad and satisfying. It is particularly refreshing to find in a book written by a pupil of Arrhenius and Ostwald that the English work of Prof. H. B. Baker, by which the vital influence of moisture on chemical change has been brought out in so picturesque and striking a form, receives (probably for the first time in a text-book of physical chemistry) something like adequate treatment. The author was undoubtedly right, however, in putting these classical experiments in the forefront of his argument when seeking to justify the great stress that has been laid upon the condition of solution by so many workers in physical science. The work of Prof. Jones's colleague, Prof. Morse, on “The Osmotic Pressure of Solutions ” finds a natural place in this volume, and the principal, results of this investigation are quoted.

The Nature of Solution.

By Prof. Harry C. Jones. With a Biographical Sketch by Prof. E. E. Reid and Tributes by Profs. Arrhenius, Ostwald, and Woodward. Pp. xxiii + 380. (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1917.) Price 12s. 6d. net.