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THIS little laboratory handbook is designed not merely as a guide to the manipulation of the methods of which it treats, but also to give the student an insight into the physical principles underlying them. The theoretical part is, however, in many places so compressed that, it is to be feared, the average student will hardly be able to follow it without some previous knowledge of the subject derived from other sources. The practical part is, on the other hand, very well done. It includes descriptions of Beckmann's and the author's apparatus for the determination of freezing-points of solutions, of the Beckmann boiling-point apparatus, as well as of the later forms devised by Hite and by the author, and of the Kohlrausch apparatus for the determination of the conductivity of solutions in the form described by Ostwald. The details of manipulation, on which the author's extensive practical experience of these methods entitles him to speak with some authority, should secure a hearty welcome for this book wherever laboratory instruction in physical chemistry is given.
The Freezing-Point, Boiling-Point and Conductivity Methods.
By Harry C. Jones. Pp. vii + 64. (Easton, Pa.: Chemical Publishing Co., 1897.)
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The Freezing-Point, Boiling-Point and Conductivity Methods. Nature 57, 606 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/057606b0
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