Laboratory Methods of Inorganic Chemistry, 2nd English Ed. 1928

TRANSLATORS' PREFACE.

FOR some time previous to the appearance of the German

edition of this book, the translators had been convinced of the

value of laboratory work in Inorganic Preparations as a basis for

the teaching of the general principles of chemistry. In fact one

of the translators had just published a more elementary text of

this character which was designed especially for first-year stu-

dents at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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The German text has, in the main, been faithfully followed,

although a few minor changes have been made to adapt the

book for the use of English-speaking students. The German

authors have not only cooperated by carefully reading the

proof sheets but they have also furnished the revisions and

additions which they intend to incorporate in the Second Ger-

man Edition.

The book applies especially to the more advanced college or

university students who would broaden the scope of their train-

ing in inorganic chemistry beyond that obtained from courses in

qualitative and quantitative analysis. It might be studied with

equal advantage, simultaneously with, or following, the more
advanced work in analytical chemistry.
In addition to the usefulness of this book to students, it should
prove of value to manufacturing chemists, for although the

working directions in the book are given for preparations strictly
on the laboratory scale, still the direct bearing of the principles
and theories of physical chemistry upon the efficiency of the
chemical processes is brought out in a manner which would

apply on a large as well as on a small scale.

The second edition contains numerous changes that have been

made in the third and fourth editions of the German text as well

as some other improvements, including a discussion of the periodic

classification of the elements.

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Blanchard and Phelan: Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry, Third Edition,

1924.

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