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(1) PROF. GILLESPIE'S book is a courageous attempt to bring the modern conceptions of physical chemistry within the range of comprehension of what he calls “biological and premedical students”. If by the latter we understand students preparing for first medical examination in Great Britain, then the book will be found too difficult. For slightly more advanced students of physical chemistry, whether medical or not, it will be found both stimulating and helpful. The emphasis throughout is on biological problems, in which physical chemistry is recognised as perhaps the most important guiding principle, and the range of subjects selected is admirable for this field. More attention might, it is true, usefully have been given to questions of reaction velocity and catalysis, the chapter on these subjects being somewhat inadequate and out of proportion as compared with the rest of the book. After all, there could be no life if everything were in equilibrium or pseudoequilibrium.
(1) Physical Chemistry: an Elementary Text, Primarily for Biological and Pre-medical Students.
By Prof. L. J. Gillespie. (International Chemical Series.) Pp.ix + 287. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc.; London: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., Ltd., 1931.) 16s. 6d. net.
(2) Outlines of Theoretical Chemistry.
By Dr. F. H. Getman. Fifth edition, revised and largely rewritten by Prof. F. Daniels. Pp. ix + 643. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1931.) 22s. 3d. net.
(3) Industrial Chemical Calculations: the Application of Physico-Chemical Principles and Data to Problems of Industry.
By Prof. O. A. Hougen Prof. K. M. Watson. Pp. vii + 502. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1931.) 28s. net.
(4) The Kinetics of Homogeneous Gas Reactions.
By Dr. L. S. Kassel. (American Chemical Society Monograph Series, No. 57.) Pp. 330. (New York: The Chemical Catalog Co., Inc., 1932.) 6.50 dollars.
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PARTINGTON, J. (1) Physical Chemistry: an Elementary Text, Primarily for Biological and Pre-medical Students (2) Outlines of Theoretical Chemistry (3) Industrial Chemical Calculations: the Application of Physico-Chemical Principles and Data to Problems of Industry (4) The Kinetics of Homogeneous Gas Reactions . Nature 130, 293–295 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130293a0
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