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THE rapid growth of analytical chemistry in modern times necessitates that any textbook which hopes effectively to cover the fields of both pure and applied analysis shall assume almost encyclopædic proportions. The considerable increase in the size of this fifth edition of Scott's well-known manual is at least outward evidence that it has attempted to deal adequately with these recent advances, a conclusion which is amply confirmed by a study of the contents. The two volumes of the present edition now cover some 2,700 pages—an increase of nearly 1,000 pages over the fourth edition.
Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis
A Manual of Analytical Methods and General Reference for the Analytical Chemist and for the Advanced Student. By Dr. Wilfred W. Scott. Fifth edition, edited by Prof. N. Howell Furman in collaboration with Eminent Specialists. Vol. 1: The Elements. Pp. xxxi + 1234 + 97. Vol. 2: Special Subjects. Pp. xxi + 1301–2618 + 97. (London: The Technical Press, Ltd., 1939.) 2 vols. 77s. 6d. net.
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Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis. Nature 144, 803 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144803a0
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