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Modern Electroplating, 4th Edition

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I have read through about a third of this book in an effort to update my electroplating knowledge and learn about some areas of electroplating I don't normally practice.

Generally speaking, this is an excellent review of the field and has been updated to include information on additive use in copper electroplating and developments in alloy electroplating for electronics.

On the downside, the editing of the book as a whole seems to be non-existent. The quality of individual chapters varies widely. This leaves me with the impression that Schlesinger and Paunovic only checked to see if the chapters were written in English and stopped at that point. Some chapters are a delight to read (like the chapter on palladium) while others are peppered with typographical errors, missing equations and such like things (e.g. the chapter on chromium). Also the varying values of Faraday's constant throughout the book indicates that no effort was made to enforce consistency of constants and units throughout the book. I was so irritated by this that I spent two or three hours finding out exactly what Faraday's constant should be (it's 96,485.3 Coulombs/mole). I found a good explanation of Faraday's constant on [...]

This a good book because I can get so much technology of elektroplating in this book, especially the solution of plating that this book give.