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THE question which naturally occurs to one on opening this book is, Why was it written? Of late we have had so many books professing to teach elementary chemistry, and some of these really fulfilling their profession, that it is hard to understand why another should be added to the list. In his preface the author says: “This book, as far as it goes, professes to enable the attentive student to acquire a sound knowledge of the very elementary facts concerning the most important of the ‘non-metallic elements,’ as they are called.” Again, he expresses the belief that by the system he has adopted, “boys will have their reasoning faculties strengthened and their powers of observation rendered accurate and acute.”
Elementary Chemistry.
By F. S. Barff (London: Edward Stanford, 1875.)
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M., M. Elementary Chemistry . Nature 12, 185 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/012185a0
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