Abstract
THE laudation of M. George Ville, with which the translator opens his preface, discouraged us at first from further perusal of this pamphlet on the citro-uranic method of determining phosphoric acid in manures; and when we did peruse these sixty pages, our chief impression was derived from the comical literality with which French idioms had been rendered into English words. But after all a good many useful hints may be gathered by practical analysts from this little book. Of course most agricultural chemists are familiar with the difficulties which beset the fair sampling and preparation of manures for analysis, and they are also acquainted with many special contrivances for overcoming these difficulties. But information as to new and improved methods of operating, and as to modifications of old processes, is always acceptable.
The Quantitative Estimation of Phosphoric Acid.
M. H. Joulie. Translated by J. Barker Smith. (Dulwich: Published by the Author, 1881.)
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The Quantitative Estimation of Phosphoric Acid . Nature 24, 283 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/024283c0
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