Exercises in Quantitative Chemical Analysis

Abstract

IT has probably been the case with all books on practical chemistry, and especially quantitative analysis, that in the first instance a rough plan or outline of the work was used by the teacher in his laboratory, there to undergo a process of extension and development. In some cases this development has gone on until we have such classical compilations of tried analytical processes as Fresenius's quantitative or Crookes's special methods. This seems to be a natural plan. Try your plan on your own students, and, if there a success, publish for the possible benefit of a wider circle. There is only this difficulty, that, outside certain fundamental operations and stages in teaching, teachers and schools differ considerably in detail, and it is precisely on this detail, or order of importance in some cases, of work that a teacher prides himself—or thinks he has the right plan—as being able to turn out the most satisfactory students or to save their time.

Exercises in Quantitative Chemical Analysis; and a Short Treatise on Gas Analysis.

W. Dittmar (Glasgow: William Hodge and Co., 1887.)