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the list of internationally known authors, and the extensive list of references following each chapter will be appreciated by the textile technologist.
Hans H.Kuhn
Milliken Research Corporation
PO. Box 1927
Spartanburg, South Carolina 29304

Textbook of Polymer Science, 3rd ed., Fred W. Billmeyer, Jr., Wiley-Interscience,

New York, 1984, 578 pp. No price given.
The new edition of F.W. Billmeyers Textbook of Polymer Science is indeed welcome
to those who have benefited from the previous edition in conveying the essential
concepts of polymer science and technology to students and co-workers. The revision
includes new material and references. Perhaps more important is the fact that some
changes of emphasis and the added discussion questions within each chapter are
consistent with advances and issues of the last decade. The scope of the sections
covering Properties of Commercial Polymers (Part 5 ) and Polymer Processing
(Part 6) is, by necessity, limited, but the interested reader is effectively introduced
to the chemical technology of polymers-and to a broad view of polymers as engineering materials. The new edition of this textbook is a valuable resource, and the
text will continue to be a starting point for the study of polymer chemistry in many
situations.
G. Tesoro
Polytechnic Institute of New York
333 Jay St.
Brooklyn, New York 11201

Modern Liquid Chromatography of Macromolecules, B. G. Belenkii and L. Z.

Vilechik, Elsevier Science Publishers, New York, 1983, 432 pp. No price given.
In the last few decades chromatography has become one of the most important
techniques for characterizing the molar mass and molar mass distribution of polymers because of the relative ease and rapidity of measurement. In principle, chromatography is based on the variation of a dynamic absorption process in a twophase system in which a mixture of migrating substances with a gas or solvent flow
through a porous medium is separated into single components according to their
absorption activity. Depending on the type of mobile phase, chromatography is
divided into gas and liquid chromatography, and, depending on the solvents used
as the stationary phase, it is divided into partition chromatography, absorption
chromatography, ion exchange chromatography and gel permeation chromatography.
This book presents the 25th volume of the Journal of Chromatographyseries which
is devoted to chromatographic and electrophoretic techniques and their applications.
It is divided in the following seven chapters: I-General Theory of Chromatography;
11-Main Features of the Chromatography of Macromolecules; 111-Interpretation
of Data on the Analysis of Polymers by GPC; IV-Methodological Problems of GPC;
V-Use of GPC for the Analysis of Macromolecules, Investigation of Their Interaction and the Characterization of the Porous Structure of Solvents; VI-HighPerformance Gel-Filtration Chromatography; VII-Thin-Layer Chromatography of
Polymers.