Oil from shale and tar sands

✍ Scribed by Charles H. Prien

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1977
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 120 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0013-7952
• DOI: 10.1016/0013-7952(77)90032-1

✦ Synopsis

of the merits of the book is that all the spectra have been obtained by the same or similar procedures and therefore are easily compared. The sectional bibliographies often seem to be oriented towards references of historical interest. The main bibliography, pp.347--387, which is organized under general headings and specific mineral groups, will be extremely useful. The book is well printed and substantially bound. Unlike the previous atlas with parallel columns of text in English and German, the present volume is wholly in very good English. I do wonder why the authors used ethyl alcohol, ethanol, and aethanol! One can see considerable use for this book in laboratories where infrared patterns are recorded as part of a procedure for the identification and study of clays and related minerals.

G.W. BRINDLEY (University Park, Pa.)