A Systematic Handbook of Volumetric Analysis; or, the Quantitative Determination of Chemical Substances by Measure, Applied to Liquids, Solids, and Gases

Abstract

A BOOK that has been the standard text-book on its subject for nearly fifty years, and continues to enjoy that position, calls for little remark as edition after edition is issued. Every student of chemistry knows, or ought to know, his “Sutton,” as he knows his “Fresenius,” and it would therefore be superfluous to attempt to describe its character and scope. The author, being now eighty years old, has placed the preparation of this tenth edition entirely in the hands of the two editors named in the title. There seems to be every evidence that the editors have done their work thoroughly and judiciously. They say that a good deal of obsolete matter has been deleted, and we najurally turned to some of those classical methods that have served so well in the past, such as Bunsen's method of gas analysis, and have been almost wholly replaced, rather than superseded, by processes that are more suitable for technical work. But the old method of making and graduating, as well as calibrating, gas burettes is retained, though the apparatus for graduating and etching them would probably be regarded as curiosities in a modern laboratory.

A Systematic Handbook of Volumetric Analysis; or, the Quantitative Determination of Chemical Substances by Measure, Applied to Liquids, Solids, and Gases.

By F. Sutton. Tenth edition. Revised throughout, with numerous additions, by W. L. Sutton and A. E. Johnson. Pp. xiv + 621. (London: J. and A. Churchill, 1911.) Price 21s. net.