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The appearance of a further addition to this series is to be welcomed and the new Volume 7 lives up to the high standards set by earlier volumes. Following the policy of the Editors of alternating the subject matter between applied and fundamental aspects of electrochemistry in the series, the present monograph contains five chapters mainly of interest to those working on basic aspects of the field of electrode processes and electrochemical adsorption. The following is a list of the chapters and their authors :
The topics of the chapters are well chosen and all have contemporary interest.
Chapter 1 brings together a great deal of useful data in graphical and numerical form on the behaviour of the double layer at mercury-solution interfaces in nonaqueous protic and aprotic solvents. It is an authoritative chapter since the author has been a principal contributor in this field. The chapter also contains some original data not previously published. By extending double-layer studies to non-aqueous solvents it is seen, by reference to appropriate comparisons and differences, how indirect but important information may be obtained about the mercury-water electrode interface, e.g. with regard to the significance of the capacity hump, and the dependence of solvation and adsorption of cations and anions on the molecular properties of the solvent.
Chapter 2 will probably be the most useful and frequently consulted contribution in the volume as it provides a mine of useful information about the properties and purification of most of the aprotic solvents now commonly used in a variety of electrochemical studies ranging from those discussed in Chapters 1 and 4 to the practical problems of fabrication of non-aqueous batteries and the development of organic electrochemical syntheses in aprotic media. Much of the information would be very difficult to ferret out from the original literature. Problems in setting up reference electrodes in these media are discussed together with the reliability of such electrodes. Useful tables of standard and formal potentials are given.
In Chapter 3, Parsons gives a clear and thorough analysis of the rather obscure problems that arise when Faradaic and non-Faradaic components of current arise in transient or non-steady state electrochemical processes. This was a matter to which Delahay recently directed attention, though it was implicit in earlier treatments of
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