Kapillarchemie: eine Darstellung der Chemie der Kolloide und verwandter Gebiete

Abstract

PROGRESS in science, like corrosion, is apt to travel along interfaces, and few areas recently brought under the plough of adventurous workers, have yielded a richer harvest than the territory between chemistry and physics occupied by the science of colloids. All the tools available in both the classical branches of knowledge are necessary for the exploitation of this field, yet it requires also its own distinctive outlook and skill. The growth of standard works in a new subject such as this is naturally slow, for each worker tends to review the field from a point of view dependent on his special explorations, and in consequence many of the earlier books were partial in their account of the work done and it was difficult to obtain from them a clear and balanced view of the whole subject. Kapillarchemie: eine Darstellung der Chemie der Kolloide und verwandter Gebiete. Von Prof. Dr. Herbert Freundlich. Band 2. Vierte unter Mitwirkung von J. Bikerman umgearbeitete Auflage. Pp. xi + 955. (Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft m.b.H., 1932.) 69 gold marks.