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<h2>Acta Crystallographica Section A</h2><h3>Crystal Physics, Diffraction, Theoretical and General Crystallography</h3><h3>0567-7394</h3> <h2>book reviews</h2> Volume 37 Part 1 Page 141 January 1981 <h2> Growth and properties of metal clusters: applications to catalysis and the photographic process edited by J. Bourdon</h2> M. J. Harding Growth and properties of metal clusters: applications to catalysis and the photographic process. Edited by J. BOURDON. Pp. xviii + 549. Amsterdam, Oxford, New York: Elsevier, 1980. Price US $97.50, Dfl 200.00. A conference with this title was held at Villeurbanne, France, in September 1979 in order to bring together research workers in various academic disciplines and from the different industries whose technology depends on the growth and properties of metal clusters. The book contains most of the papers presented at the conference, together with a record of the discussion after each paper and a more general panel discussion. The different papers are grouped under the titles: Nucleation, growth, coalescence; Electroco'stal- lisation, Structures, physico-chemical properties, theoo'; Application to the photographic process; Structure and catalytic reactiviO': Application to catalysis. The conference came at an appropriate time for photographic scientists since, at the previous year's Inter- national Congress held at Rochester, New York, thermo- dynamic theories of the formation