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THERE was always been something intellectually unsatisfying about manuals, dictionaries and encyclopædias of industrial chemistry. To the works chemist, intimately acquainted with the details of a particular industry, they often appear superficial and elementary; to the student of chemistry they lack the imaginative appeal which is found in works on the pure sciences; to the chemical engineer, concerned primarily with the quantitative aspects of physical and chemical processes, they usually offer a qualitative and unbalanced olla podrida of engineering, chemistry and economics which is peculiarly irritating.
The Chemical Process Industries
By Prof. R. Norris Shreve. (Chemical Engineering Series.) Pp. xiii + 957. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1945.) 25s.
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NEWITT, D. The Chemical Process Industries. Nature 158, 251–252 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158251a0
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