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Comprehensive Inorganic Chemistry EDITORIAL BOARD J . C. B A I L A R JR., Urbana Η. J . E M E L E U S , F.R.S.,
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t S I R R O N A L D N Y H O L M , F.R.S.,
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A. F. T R O T M A N - D I C K E N S O N , {Executive Editor)
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The Chemistry of
SULPHUR M .
S C H M I D T A N D W . SIEBERT
SELENIUM, TELLURIUM AND POLONIUM K. W . BAGNAU
Chapters 23 a n d 24 o f Comprehensive Inorganic Chemistry
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PREFACE The excellent reception that has been accorded to Compre hensive Inorganic Chemistry since the simultaneous publication of the five volumes of the complete work has been accompanied by the plea that sections should be made available in a form that would enable specialists to purchase copies for their own use. To meet this demand the publishers have decided to issue selected chapters and groups of chapters as separate editions. These chapters will, apart from the corrections of misprints and the addition of prefatory material and individual indices, appear just as they did in the main work. Extensive revision would delay publication and greatly raise the cost, so limiting the circulation of these definitive reviews. A . F . TROTMAN-DICKENSON
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INDEX Oxyacids hydrogen peroxide derivatives sulphane derivatives 8 8 4
Actinide sulphides 932 Aluminium sulphides 925 Carbon selenides 983 sulphides 920 tellurides 983 Carbonyl polonide 954 selenide 954 telluride 954 Chalcogens 935 Chamber process for preparation o f sulphuric acid 871 Chlorosulphonic acid 857 Claus process 798 Contact process for preparation o f sulphuric acid 871
Peroxodisulphuric acid 883 Peroxomonosulphuric acid 883 Phosphorus sulphides 918 P o l o n i u m 935 allotropy 9 4 1 , 9 4 3 alloys 951 analysis 949 carbonate 9 8 4 Chromate 989 complexes 1005 halo- 1005 nitrogen d o n o r 1007 oxoacid 1006 oxygen d o n o r 1007 sulphur d o n o r 1008 dihalides 956 σ r g a n o - 997 i8-diketone derivatives 1002 dioxide 968 halides 955 mixed 9 6 2 triaryl 998 health hazard 9 4 6 hexafluoride 962 history 935 hydride 953 hydroxide 9 7 2 iodate 989 m o n o x i d e 968 nitrates 9 8 6 occurrence 936 organic 9 9 2 σrgano- c o m p o u n d s 9 8 9 phosphate 9 8 7 production 936 properties chemical 9 4 5 , 959 nuclear 943 physical 9 4 4 purification 938 salts o f organi