Book Review: Principles of Pyrometallurgy. By C. B. Alcock

✍ Scribed by Norbert Nowack

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1977
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 235 KB
• Volume: 16
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0044-8249
• DOI: 10.1002/anie.197704912

✦ Synopsis

Methods for the determination of elements and chemical compounds in seawater have developed very rapidly in recent years. Thus, routine procedures can now be used for quantitative analysis of trace metals and many organic compounds for which not a single reliable value was available ten years ago. The analytical methods for "classical" components of marine chemistry (e. g. for silicate, nitrate, and ammonia) have meanwhile also been improved. A powerful impetus toward this development came from the need to monitor changes in the environment-and thus also in the sea-including those due to human activity.

In view of this development, the books hitherto available on analysis of seawater are in part outdated. The best of them, "A Practical Handbook of Seawater Analysis" by J . D. H . Strickland and 7: R . Parsons, is after all nearly ten years old. It is therefore very welcome that Grasshoff and his colleagues have taken the trouble to provide a largely new volume.

In this book methods are described for the determination of "dissolved" materials (particle size < 0.45 pm) as well as