Liquid Metals: Chemistry and Physics

S Z Beer New York: Marcel Dekker 1972 pp x + 731 price 35 This volume, edited by Sylvan Beer of Converta Enterprises in Syracuse, New York, consists of 15 chapters, with different authorship for each, except for the chapters on sound propagation and on viscosity, which are both written by R T Beyer and E M Ring, and the chapters on diffraction analysis and on noncrystalline metal alloys, where C N J Wagner is an author in each case. This fact means that the problem of the work lacking a theme, and therefore any real unity, is hard to avoid.