Radiation Chemistry: An Introduction
Radiation Chemistry: An Introduction
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10.1080/09553007414550511
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1973
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A. J. Swallow
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A. J. Swallow
斯沃洛博士是辐射化学领域的先驱作家之一，他在1960年出版了一本关于辐射对有机化合物影响的书。本卷，他的第二份贡献，范围更广，主要面向高级学生（本科生和研究生）和相关学科（如核技术，辐射物理，聚合物科学和辐射生物学）的专家，他们可能需要获得辐射化学的一般背景。在这方面，斯沃洛博士的书是非常成功的，它将有助于弥补现代物理化学教科书中对这一主题论述的不足。前三章涉及各种辐射源，电离辐射与物质相互作用的物理学和能量沉积的测量。接下来是对短寿命中间体（即离子、激发态和自由基）的形成机制和检测方法的说明。事实上，正是在这一特定领域，辐射化学家对物理化学作出了重大贡献，而且由于进展非常迅速，这部分似乎有些不足，这也许是不可避免的。本书的最后几章充分说明了气体、液体（含水和非含水）、无机固体、聚合物和生物感兴趣的物质的辐射分解化学。这是一本非常可读的书，名字（和优先级！）整齐，包括在教学课程中应该很有用的数值问题。这本书的总体布局相当不错，但也许，在要价的情况下，排版可能不会吸引每个人。g . ScxoLEs
DR. Swallow is one of the pioneer authors in the field of radiation chemistry, having produced, in 1960, a book dealing with radiation effects on organic compounds. The present volume, his second contribution, is much wider in scope and is primarily intended for advanced students (undergraduate and postgraduate) and those specialists in related disciplines (eg nuclear technology, radiation physics, polymer science and radiation biology) who may need to acquire a general background to radiation chemistry. In this context, Dr. Swallow's book is very successful and will serve to compensate the inadequacy of the treatment of the subject in modem textbooks of physical chemistry. The first three chapters deal with the various sources of radiation, the physics of the interaction of ionising radiation with matter and the measurements of energy deposition. This is followed by an account of the mechanism of formation and of the methods of detection of the short-lived intermediates, i. e. ions, excited states and free-radicals. In fact, it is in this particular area that radiation chemists have made a significant contribution to physical chemistry, and it is perhaps inevitable, because of very rapid progress, that this section appears somewhat deficient. The final chapters of the book give an adequate account of the chemistry of the radiolysis of gases, liquids (aqueous and non-aqueous), inorganic solids, polymers and substances of biological interest. It is a very readable book, uncluttered by names (and priorities!) and includes numerical problems which should be of great use in a teaching course. The general layout of the book is quite good, but perhaps, at the asking price, the typography may not appeal to everyone. G. ScxoLEs