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Just as the synthesis of madder and indigo ended their laborious and uncertain production by agricultural means, chemical industry will replace cotton and wool reduc- tion and eventually all food crops and animals—". . one will have to go to a zoological garden to see a cow." Agri- culture will cease except as a pastime. Freedom from the η line will come with methods for extracting the "dilute abundance" of all needed metals from sea water and the earth's surface. This will require many times our present supply of power and will necessitate the use of solar energy rather than the relatively insignificant amount of atomic energy. What is required, says Rosin, is a cneinisiic society. By this he means a social order which will spend the billions required for research and de- velopment to make the possible actual. He cites cases when war was the in- centive to produce synthetically a scarce material, such as rubber, which eventually is better and cheaper than the natural product. Man can, in the foreseeable future, be free from want, tear, and most labor if he will through group action dare to underwrite the scientific projects which are too slow and costly for private enterprise. The knowledge and the means to attain abundance lie just beyond the present. There must be a new attitude and purpose in society to bring it into being. This is an exciting and informative book. The qualified predictions for the future are not so fantastic when they are made as justified projections of the knowledge and achievements of the present. Sometimes the authors allow themselves to be carried away. "It is no longer a question of 'each Hotten- tot getting his bottle of milk.' We shall have to supply him with something like a rocket ship for interplanetary travel!" We will have to blame that one on Max Eastman, the professional winter, rather than on Rosin, the scientist. Because in truth, the authors make a persuasive case. Besides its challenging thesis the book would be worth reading for the wealth of in- formation which fills its pages. It is a breezy history of the chemist's achieve- ments in many fields from metallurgy to medicine and a reminder that the production of all goods and materials today is dependent upon chemistry. "The Road to Abundance" is a hearten- ing book which is recommended as an antidote for gloomy predictions of ex- haustion of fuel, mine, and water re- sources, and for Malthusian worry about the world's rapid increase in population. Rosin ably refutes the prophets of doom. The Road to Abundance. JACOB ROSIN -AND MAX EASTMAN, xi -f- 166 pages. McGraw-Hill Book Co., 330 West 42nd St., New York 36, Ν. Υ. 1953. $3.50. Reviewed by T. L. RETTGER, Buckeye Cotton Oil Co. New Books . . . The Atomisation of Liquid Fuels. E. ClFFEN AND A. MURASZEW. IX + 2 4 6 pages. John Wiley & Sons, 440 Fourth Ave., New York 16, Ν. Υ. 1953. $6.00. Discusses the mechanism of disintegration of liquid jets, theory of the swirl atomizer, and fuel spray characteristics. The Chemistry of Heterocyclic Com- pounds. Arnold Weissbcrger, consult- ing editor. Vol. VI. Part 1. Imidazole and Its Derivatives. KJLAUS HOFMANN. wiii -f 447 pages. Interscience Pub- lishers, Inc., 250 Fifth Ave., New York I, N r . Y. 1953. Subscription Price $12.25. Single copy $13.50. Summarizes the chemistry of the imida- zoles, imidazolines, imidazolidincs, benz- imidazoles, and their derivatives. Handbook of Chemistrv and Physics. 35th ed. 3000 pages. The Chemical Rubber Co., 2310 Superior Ave., Cleveland 14, Ohio. 1953. $8.00. New and revised contents include table of isotopes, thermal neutron cross sec- tions, miscibility of industrial solvent pairs, values of chemical thermodynamic prop- erties, and organic analytical reagents. Infrared Absorption Spectra of Steroids. K'ONRAD DOBRINER, E. R. KATZENEL- LENBOCEN, AND R. N. JONES. Intersci- ence Publishers, Inc., 250 Fifth Ave., New York 1, Ν. Υ. $11.50. Explains experimental technique of using infrared absorption spectrum as a means of identifying steroids. Contains 308-page atlas of spectra for Cm steroids, C,o_ 2 » steroids, bile acid esters, steroid sapo- genins and derivatives, cardiac aglycones and derivatives, and steroid alkaloids. The Physics of Viruses. E. C. POLLARD. xi -4- 230 pages. Academic Press, Inc., 125 East 23rd St., New York 10, Ν. Υ. 1953. $5.50. Presents what is known about viruses from the viewpoint of a physicist. Contains descriptions of viruses, snowing that defi- nite shapes and structures are emerging. A Speculation in Reality. I. F. LAUCKS. 154 pages. Philosophical Library, 15 East 40th St., New York, Ν. Υ. 1953. $3.75. An attempt to connect outstanding facts 4716 CHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING NEWS
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BOOKS Malfhus Could Be Wrong
M A L T H U S and his gloomy predictions have kept many generations worried about the human race's starving to death. It is a relief to have Jacob Rosin assure us that the old fellow didn't know what he was talking about. Not only can there be plenty of all things including food, thanks to the chemists, but we won't have to work so hard either.
First we must attain freedom from the plant, which is an inefficient producer of food and fiber and takes up far too much space. Just as the synthesis of madder and indigo ended their laborious and uncertain production by agricultural means, chemical industry will replace cotton and wool r e d u c tion and eventually all food crops and animals—". . one will have to go to a zoological garden to see a cow." Agriculture will cease except as a pastime.
Freedom from the η line will come with methods for extracting the "dilute abundance" of all needed metals from sea water and the earth's surface. This will require many times our present supply of power and will necessitate the use of solar energy rather than the relatively insignificant amount of atomic energy.
What is required, says Rosin, is a cneinisiic society. By this he means a social order which will spend the billions required for research and development to make the possible actual. He cites cases when war was the incentive to produce synthetically a scarce material, such as rubber, which eventually is better and cheaper than the natural product. Man can, in the foreseeable future, be free from want, tear, and most labor if he will through group action dare to underwrite the scientific projects which are too slow and costly for private enterprise. The knowledge and the means to attain abundance lie just beyond the present. There must be a new attitude and purpose in society to bring it into being.
This is an exciting and informative book. The qualified predictions for the future are not so fantastic when they are made as justified projections of the knowledge and achievements of the present. Sometimes the authors allow themselves to be carried away. "It is no longer a question of 'each Hottentot getting his bottle of milk.' We shall have to supply him with something like a rocket ship for interplanetary travel!" W e will have to blame that one on Max Eastman, the professional winter, rather than on Rosin, the scientist. Because in truth, the authors make a persuasive case. Besides its challenging thesis the book would be
worth reading for the wealth of information which fills its pages. It is a breezy history of the chemist's achievements in many fields from metallurgy to medicine and a reminder that the production of all goods and materials today is dependent upon chemistry. "The Road to Abundance" is a heartening book which is recommended as an antidote for gloomy predictions of exhaustion of fuel, mine, and water resources, and for Malthusian worry about the world's rapid increase in population. Rosin ably refutes the prophets of doom. The Road to Abundance. JACOB ROSIN
-AND MAX EASTMAN, xi -f- 166 pages. McGraw-Hill Book Co., 330 West 42nd St., New York 36, Ν. Υ. 1953. $3.50. Reviewed by T. L. RETTGER, Buckeye Cotton Oil Co.
New Books . . . The Atomisation of Liquid Fuels. E.
ClFFEN AND A. MURASZEW. IX + 2 4 6 pages. John Wiley & Sons, 440 Fourth Ave., New York 16, Ν. Υ. 1953. $6.00.
Discusses the mechanism of disintegration of liquid jets, theory of the swirl atomizer, and fuel spray characteristics.
The Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds. Arnold Weissbcrger, consulting editor. Vol. VI. Part 1. Imidazole and Its Derivatives. KJLAUS HOFMANN. wiii -f 447 pages. Interscience Publishers, Inc., 250 Fifth Ave., New York I, Nr. Y. 1953. Subscription Price $12.25. Single copy $13.50.
Summarizes the chemistry of the imidazoles, imidazolines, imidazolidincs, benz-imidazoles, and their derivatives.
Handbook of Chemistrv and Physics. 35th ed. 3000 pages. The Chemical Rubber Co., 2310 Superior Ave., Cleveland 14, Ohio. 1953. $8.00.
New and revised contents include table of isotopes, thermal neutron cross sections, miscibility of industrial solvent pairs, values of chemical thermodynamic properties, and organic analytical reagents.
Infrared Absorption Spectra of Steroids. K'ONRAD DOBRINER, E. R. K A T Z E N E L -LENBOCEN, AND R. N. JONES. Intersci-ence Publishers, Inc., 250 Fifth Ave., New York 1, Ν. Υ. $11.50.
Explains experimental technique of using infrared absorption spectrum as a means of identifying steroids. Contains 308-page atlas of spectra for Cm steroids, C,o_2» steroids, bile acid esters, steroid sapo-genins and derivatives, cardiac aglycones and derivatives, and steroid alkaloids.
The Physics of Viruses. E. C. POLLARD. xi -4- 230 pages. Academic Press, Inc., 125 East 23rd St., New York 10, Ν. Υ. 1953. $5.50.
Presents what is known about viruses from the viewpoint of a physicist. Contains descriptions of viruses, snowing that definite shapes and structures are emerging.
A Speculation in Reality. I. F. LAUCKS. 154 pages. Philosophical Library, 15 East 40th St., New York, Ν. Υ. 1953. $3.75.
An attempt to connect outstanding facts
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οί physics, chemistry, auci biology with psychic phenomena.
Paperbound Documents on the German Chemical In
dustry. Catalog No. 20. Association pour l'Utilisation et la Diffusion de la Documentation, 18, Avenue de Villars, Paris-Vir. 1953.
Contains about 400 references with abstracts on the synthesis and gasification of fuels.
Papers and Publications on the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Jet Propulsion Centers, 1951-52. 11 pages. The Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Jet Propulsion Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif., or Princeton University, Princeton, N. J. 1953.
Lists research papers and publications which are available. Deal with a broad range of rocket· and jet propulsion problems.
Spectors Molecular. I. Régulas de Selection _ pro_Spectros Vibrational d e Mo-lecuias rolyatomic, iii -f 21 pages. F. F. CLEVELAND. F. F. Cleveland, Spectroscopy Laboratory, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago 16, 111. 1953. 75 cents.
Explains methods of obtainiii0, selection rules for vibrational spectra of polyatomic molecules, both linear and nonlinear. Written in the international language, In-terlingna.
State of Maryland Water Pollution Control Commission—Biennial Report for the Fiscal Years 1952 and 1953. 82 pages. Water Pollution Contro! Commission, 2114 North Charles St., Baltimore 18, Md. 1953.
Corrosion Abstracts
Korrosionssch titz-Nachrichten contains abstracts of corrosion literature appearing in European and American journals. Its aim is t o raise corrosion sensitivity of middle and minor industrialists in Germany b y offering t h e m a concentration of wide ly scattered information on corrosion, principally metal corrosion. It is issued biweekly. Subscription rate in the U. S. is $1 .35 a month or $3 .60 for three months. Further information can b e obtained from Cerhardt Furbringer, Korrosions.schutz-Nachrichten, Tietzestrasse 27, Ham-burg-Blankenese, Germany.
Russian Research on Petroleum Emulsions
T w o reports covering recent Russian research on petroleum emulsions, which originally appeared in Colloid Journal ( U . S. S. R.) in 1 9 5 2 , are available in complete English translations, Electrical Conductivi ty of Concentrated Petroleum Emulsions, V. G. Benkovsky, 11 pages , costs $7 .50; Mechanism of Formation of Petroleum Emulsions, V. G. Benkovsky and N . D . Vavorokhin, 15 pages , also costs $ 7 . 5 0 . Order from Consultants Bureau, 152 West Forty-Second St., N e w York 18, Ν . Υ.
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