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THIS book, which is founded on Prof. Clowes' larger “Practical Chemistry and Qualitative Analysis” is intended for the use of general students and of technical students in schools and colleges who are desirous of acquiring a general elementary knowledge of chemistry, and who propose to acquire this knowledge in the only true way, viz. by themselves performing experiments in a laboratory. For such students the book furnishes an admirable guide. The first eighty pages contain excellent instructions as to the preparation and use of apparatus, the methods of carrying out ordinary chemical operations, and the modes of demonstrating the properties of common gases and liquids. The remainder of the book is occupied with a course of qualitative analysis, which treats first, at considerable length, of the reactions for metals and for acid-radicles, and then of the actual analysis of simple and complex substances. There is, further, an appendix of useful tables and a good index.
Elementary Practical Chemistry and Qualitative Analysis.
By Frank Clowes J. Bernard Coleman Pp. xvi + 224. (London: J. and A. Churchill, 1896.)
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Elementary Practical Chemistry and Qualitative Analysis. Nature 54, 460 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/054460a0
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