G.H. Osborn, Synthetic Ion-Exchangers, Recent Developments in Theory and Application : Chapman and Hall, London, 1961, 344 pp., price 50 s

✍ Scribed by W.T. Elwell

• Book ID: 104103798
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1961
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 105 KB
• Volume: 25
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0003-2670
• DOI: 10.1016/s0003-2670(01)81568-3

✦ Synopsis

This book does not deal esclusively with analytical aspectsof syntheticion-exchangers, although 34 pages of clear concise information are contained under this heading. A further 120 pages, comprising what is, in effect, Part I of the book, contains chapters of almost eclual interest to the analyst, including a detailed study of ion-eschange membranes and the use of ion-exchange resins in the control of trade effluents; in the section dealing with therapeutic applications, the reader is almost tempted to regard the human body as another form of ion-eschange column. The chapter devoted to large scale applications of these resins deals with such subjects as the production of hydrochloric acid from brine, glutamic acid from sugar beet, and the recovery of golcl from cyanide liquors.

In this revised edition, some of the more theoretical sections contained in the first edition have been omitted, and the more practical aspects of the subject have bean expanded.

As in the first edition the author has avoided presenting a maze of information with supporting references, which unfortunately so often happens when such a wide coverage is attempted, but has wisely chosen to continue to present such information in a separate, carefully prepared classified bibliography, comprising the second part of the book. This part in itself is. a commex~d~ble feature of the publication; it contains some 500 more titles than were included in the first edition, Anyone with a problem involving a chemical reaction, is advised to consult this book to ascertain the extent to which it might be resolved by the application of Synthetic Ion-Exchangers.

W. T. ELWELL (Birmingham)