✍ Scribed by R.H. Oppermann
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Although used for many years as a means for illumination, a tool in industry and as a constituent or product in chemistry, acetylene todav stands on the threshhold of even greater usefulness. It is time, therefore, that an accounting be made, reviewing knowledge up to the present, so that a working basis can be had for progress in the future, and at the same time to provide a means for enlightening those whose activities may l)e along a wholly different line and yet may have border-llne significance. This American Chemical Society Monograph is intended to fill this need. It is a brief but fairly complete account of the preparation, properties and reactions of acetylene along with an extensive classified bibliography. Its arrangement is based entirely on a classification of the methods of preparation and type reactions of acetylene, rather than on considerations of historical sequence or industrial status. Bibliographies follow each topic.
The work is divided into five parts. The first deals with physical properties, preparation and purification; the second is on metallo-derlvaties; the third is on the substitution of nonmetal atoms or radicals for the hydrogen of acetylene; the fourth is on the addition of nonmetallic elements and compounds to acetylene; and the fifth is on the polymerization and condensation wlth'carbon compounds. Most literature coverage ends with the year I938.
The presentation is quite complete. It is an exhaustive inquiry into the literature coupled with a classification and method that should be most useful.
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The author has skillfully presented the mathematics in a manner readily understandable by engineers. The book already is being used to teach graduate mathematics to engineers in several universities. Engineers find it a convenient reference book, for the material is self-explanatory. The book assum