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IT is surely high time that students of chemistry were taught qualitative analysis by some other method than by following a very complicated table of analysis. That very important stage of chemical learning, qualitative analysis, would be much more thoroughly mastered if the student were well exercised in the reactions of the elementary substances, and then led to construct methods of separation himself. He would by this means become independent of tables and books in the laboratory. Students who are accustomed to work with, or follow, a table, often lose much time in finding where they are working on the table, and get on the “left side” of the group when they should be on the other. The tables before us would doubtless be useful to an advanced student, but appear certainly very complicated to be put into the hands of a beginner. No notice is taken of the so-called rare elements, but a good table of solubilities is supplied—a part of an analysis book that students might benefit by consulting a little oftener than is usually the case. Although produced in the usual good style of the Clarendon Press, a somewhat smaller form would perhaps be more convenient for use on the laboratory benches.
Tables of Qualitative Analysis.
By H. G. Madan. (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1881.)
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Tables of Qualitative Analysis . Nature 25, 264 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/025264b0
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