hydrocarbons

Hydrocarbons – Physical Properties and their	Postscript
Relevance to Utilisation

Postscript

Can a book of 100 pages possibly have a place in an area as vast and as complex as hydrocarbon science and technology? I believe that it can. It is an ill-informed judgement of a piece of scholarship which equates brevity with superficiality. This book is very focused and is intended to bring out new perspectives rather than to reproduce information readily available elsewhere. It is to that, not to any deficiency in content, that the book owes its modest length.

I recently read in an account of the life of a 20th Century scholar in a subject area totally different from my own that he ‘seems to fall in love with his material, such is the intensity of his engagement with it’. Whilst that might be seen as fanciful or even as lacking a sense of proportion, I think that most professional scholars could relate to it. To have studied a topic closely and deeply is an enriching experience. At this career stage I have a strong desire to share such insights as I have with people who have most of their professional lives in front of them. That has been my aim in writing this text and I venture to hope that others will follow.

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