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THE book is not, nor does it profess to be, a manual for the oil specialist. As a work for the student who wishes to specialise and “as a laboratory guide for chemists who are not extensively engaged in oil analysis, or who have to deal with only a limited number of oils” (to use the words of the preface), it fills a decided want, and is evidently written by one who understands the requirements in such a case. The first chapter, on the occurrence and composition of oils, fats and waxes, may at first sight appear to be superfluous, but it deals systematically with so many substances that are unfamiliar to those relying only on the usual chemical text-books for their knowledge that it forms a really essential introduction to the subsequent chapters.
The Analysis of Oils and Allied Substances.
By A. C. Wright Pp. xi + 241. (London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1903.) Price 9s. net.
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The Analysis of Oils and Allied Substances . Nature 67, 460 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/067460a0
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