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SINCE G. N. Lewis's fundamental paper of 1916, the electronic theory of valency has been amplified and applied so extensively as to create the need for a monograph every few years; and every few years, so far, a monograph has been produced by a leading contributor to the subject. Lewis's own book ‘ ‘Valence and the Structure of Atoms and Molecules” (1923), Sidgwick's
The Nature of the Chemical Bond and the Structure of Molecules and Crystals
An Introduction to Modern Structural Chemistry. By Prof. Linus Pauling. (The George Fisher Baker Non-resident Lectureship in Chemistry at Cornell University.) Pp. xiv + 429. (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1939.) 21s. net.
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INGOLD, C. The Nature of the Chemical Bond and the Structure of Molecules and Crystals. Nature 145, 644–645 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145644b0
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