Chemical Experiments, General and Analytical

Abstract

THIS is a practical, and, in some respects, an admirable, manual for chemical laboratories. The experiments described in the first half of the book instruct in metric measurements, glass manipulation, physical changes, chemical changes, and the preparation, properties and tests for the non-metallic elements and of the most important gaseous compounds. This part of the volume furnishes a good introductory course of practical chemistry. In the second part, the general and analytical reactions for metals are tabulated, the method adopted being to take each metal of a group separately and give the analytical reactions for it, and afterwards to treat the group in the same way. As a whole, the book should prove of Service to students of analytical chemistry. Two features possessed by it offend the eye: one is the reformed chemical orthography, such as sulfuric for sulphuric, oxids for oxides, iodin for iodine, and so on; the other is the use of nearly sixty abbreviations, as, for instance, in the following sentences.