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THE fourth volume of Sir Edward Thorpe's well-known “Dictionary of Applied Chemistry” covers subjects ranging from oilstone to soda nitre. Among the longer articles are those dealing with some important oils, paints, opium, oxygen and ozone, paper, paraffin, petroleum, photography, platinum, polarimetry, potassium, pottery, quinones, radio-activity, rubber, saponi-fication, sewage, silicon, silk, silver, smoke, soap, &c.
A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry.
By Sir Edward Thorpe, C.B., F.R.S. Assisted by Eminent Contributors. Revised and enlarged edition. Vol. iv. Pp. viii + 727. (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1913.) Price 45s. net.
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MELLOR, J. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry . Nature 91, 604 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091604a0
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