Chemical machinery: by Emil Raymond Riegel. 582 pages, photographs and diagrams, 16 × 23 cms. New York, Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1944. Price $5.00

✍ Scribed by R.H. Oppermann

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1944
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 190 KB
• Volume: 238
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(44)91096-3

✦ Synopsis

This book is a text dealing with the development of the fundamental chemistry of the hydrocarbons, alcohols, acids, and other classes of organic compounds. This is done in orderly, connected sequence designed for use after the elementary chemical technique has been acquired. It starts with the KekulC theory of structure and proceeds through treatments on saturated hydrocarbons, ethylenic and acetylenic hydrocarbons, petroleum and alcohols.

A second division may be classed as that which covers the halogen compounds, carboxylic acids, aldehydes and ketones, amines, stereochemistry and ring formation of compounds other than those of the aromatic series.

At this point a chapter on rubber appears which discusses the natural as well as the synthetic product.

Sugar chemistry is then taken up, followed by fats and waxes, proteins, and the microbiological processes.