Abstract
NOTABLE advances in our knowledge of the physical chemistry of high-polymeric systems have been made by British chemists. This is particularly true of those parts of this subject concerned with the mechanism and kinetics of addition polymerization of vinyl compounds, the thermodynamics of solutions of rubber, the application of physical methods to the elucidation of structure, and the behaviour of high polymers under applied stresses. It is therefore the more surprising that the book under review is the first on this subject to be published in Great Britain. If such a volume has been long overdue, Prof. C. E. H. Bawn's book has been well worth waiting for and, in the reviewer's opinion, deserves, and will probably secure, a much wider range of readers than that for which it was written.
The Chemistry of High-Polymers
By Prof. C. E. H. Bawn. Pp. x+249. (London: Butterworth's Scientific Publications, Ltd., 1948.) 17s. 6d. net.
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DAINTON, F. The Chemistry of High-Polymers. Nature 163, 424–425 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163424a0
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