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The Merck Index

Paul G. Stecher, editor. 7th ed. 1641 pages; Merck and Co., Inc. Rahway, N. J. 1960. Price $12.00.

University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill.

ABSTRACT

The new enlarged edition of this valuable reference book contains nearly 10,000 descriptions of individual substances, more than 3,300 structural formulas, and 30,000 names of chemicals and drugs alphabetically arranged and cross-indexed.

The cross listing is an outstanding feature of the book. It enables the user to locate a particular chemical description by page number regardless of whether he knows only the generic name, brand name or systematic chemical name for the substance.

Another outstanding feature of this book is the section which lists more than 400 organic "Name" reactions with original and review references, together with a description and structural representation of each reaction. The periodic table is arranged in accordance with the latest concepts of nuclear science. Nearly 300 pages are devoted to chromatographic absorbents, Russian alphabet, biological units, coal-tar colors, thermometric equivalents, antifreeze mixtures, refractive index of liquids, saturated solutions, radioactive isotopes, percentage solution tables, isotonic solutions and atomic weights and their multiples and logs.