Abstract
AMONG the distinctive characteristics of this addition to the already numerous volumes on practical chemistry are: the prominence given to the recognition of common elementary substances by an examination of their simple physical and chemical properties, the attention given to dry methods of analysis, and the series of flame-reactions. These sections provide students of practical chemistry with excellent exercises in manipulation, and will counteract the belief that the best way to analyse a substance is always to dissolve it and go through the usual routine treatment of solutions and precipitates. There is little sympathy with ordinary qualitative analysis at the present time, but where the subject is taught it should be taught intelligently; and as this little book provides a reasonable course of laboratory work, it merits a trial.
Elements of Qualitative Analysis.
By G. H. Bailey G. J. Fowler, M.Sc. Pp. 115. (Manchester: J. E. Cornish, 1900.)
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Elements of Qualitative Analysis . Nature 62, 412 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/062412a0
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