A Text-Book of Practical Chemistry (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from A Text-Book of Practical Chemistry

This work is an attempt to place in the student's hands a Manual of Practical Chemistry which shall be a reference book in a convenient form.

Though not claiming in any way to be a specialist's book, it does aim at giving the student a thorough knowledge of general methods, so that he will be in a position to proceed to specialist work without difficulty.

The scope of the book does not allow of the inclusion of any very advanced work in Physical Chemistry; it indicates the basic lines along which the student may proceed and prepares him for seeking inspiration from the advanced theoretical text-books.

No great claim to originality is put forward, but a whole-hearted attempt has been made to indicate the best methods of doing everything. To this end a large number of original papers have been consulted, in addition to most of the text-books quoted in the literature of each branch, and the authors have also drawn on twelve years of teaching experience and their own experimental work.

It is believed that every source of special information has been acknowledged in the text.

The authors' thanks are due to Mr. J. S. Firth, B.Sc., for kindly reading through a large part of the MSS.; to Messrs. Clowes and Coleman for permission to make stereo-plates of the logarithm and atomic weight tables in their "Quantitative Analysis"; to Messrs. J. J. Griffin and A. Gallenkamp for permission to make sketches from diagrams of apparatus in their catalogues, and to the publishers for kindly help and advice throughout.

It is too much to hope that the first edition of a work of this kind will be free from errors, and the authors will be grateful for their attention being called to any which may have occurred.

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