9 - September 1999 Chemistry 453 453. LC Call no. The book provides detailed discussions of its primary areas such as PVT behavior, provides tables of data where available, and discusses the various models used to predict and estimate properties where the data is not available.
Tables are generally clear and easy to understand.
The book has no index but does have a fairly detailed table of contents. One area of confusion may be a problem with the review copy, which is missing Appendix A which the Table of Contents indicates contains the abbreviations for the polymers and solvents, a table which would prove to be quite useful. Without it, some of the tables which use abbreviations for the solvent name and the polymer name could be a bit confusing. Much of the power of this book comes from PolyProp, databases which accompany the text. The various subprograms allow the user to view existing data, predict properties from models, edit data and parameters, and analyze experimental data.