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IT is now eighteen years since the appearance of the fifih edition of this work; this, of course has necessitated the change from the old atomic weights to the new, but the arrangement of the elements and sections of the book has been retained as in former editions. The present volume has been thoroughly revised, the information having been brought up to a very recent date; should the remaining volumes be equally reliable, itwillprobablybe the most complete work on inorganic chemistry in any langauge. Dr. Kraut has obtained the assistance of Drs. Naumann, Ritter, and Jorgensen, in order to expedite the conclusion of the work. There is no book to our knowledge which contains so large an amount of information in a small I space as Gmelin's Handbook. It is, as expressed in the I preface, a complete, concise, and systematic handbook of chemistry up to the latest time. The merits of this book for the purposes of reference are so well known that it would be quite superfluous to enter into any lengthened description of it. In the volume now under consideration oxygen, hydrogen, carbon, boron, phosphorus, and sulphur, with some of their more important compounds, are treated of; the article on ozone and its properties is perhaps typical of the book, it occupies fourteen pages, and forms a very valuable and complete history of this body. The completion of the book may be looked for with interest, although necessarily it will be some time before this can be accomplished.
Gmelin-Kraut's Handbuch der Chemie, Anorganische Chemie. In Drei Banden, Sechsteumgearbeitete Auflage.
Herausgegeben von Dr. Karl Kraut, Heidelberg. Erster Band zweite Abtheilung, pp. 176. London: Williams and Norgate.)
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Gmelin-Kraut's Handbuch der Chemie, Anorganische Chemie In Drei Banden, Sechsteumgearbeitete Auflage . Nature 5, 261 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/005261a0
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