Chemical Technology and Engineering. Report of the Fuel research board for the year ended march 31, 1936. With Report of the Director of Fuel Research. Pp. x + 217. London: H.M. Stationery Oilice, 1936. 4s

• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 2010
• Weight: 141 KB
• Volume: 56
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0368-4075
• DOI: 10.1002/jctb.5000561821

✦ Synopsis

The lucidity with which \lie iiiaiu facts about soil water are described, ricccssnrily in tho barest outline, makes thiu section of the book an iidmirablc introduction to more cruditc works in which the simplc origiual meaning of strangely sounding tcrtiis is oftcti hiddeu in a ninw of tccliiiicnliti?:s. fi!lic siiiiic can bc Raid of most of thc otlicr chapters. Thc custoiuary small amount of spacc is dcvotcd to hiiiii~is, the ouc substauco whoso rcnctionfi really innttcr iri pedology, but of which our scanty kiiowledgc is iiselcss to ngriculturo. Tlicrc is a useful chapter on whit to rcnd in scicut.ific litcraturc, but oiic iiiisscs in thc book itself any refcrcnces to tho s0urcc.q. of quotcd works. Ncithcr blic student nor the advauccd worlrcr should IN encouraged in tho facile tendency to ncccpt LL statciilcnt in -a text4)ookhowev,?r good--at its fnco vnlue.

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