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THIS small volume is intended for students, analysts, and works chemists who are familiar with general chemistry but have had little or no practical experience in analysing oils, or preparations which contain oils. It includes much of what one would put in a good notebook intended for personal use in the laboratory. A short introduction serves to refresh the reader's memory upon points in organic chemistry specially relevant to oils and fats, after which the authors give short accounts of the most approved chemical and physical methods used in examining these bodies. Theoretical explanations are included as well as practical details. For example, the chemical reactions concerned in the absorption of iodine by oils are described more fully than usual—though it is true that we have to look in more than one place for them. A chapter on technological analysis deals not only with oils, fats, and waxes as such, but with articles such as paints, pigments, and varnishes which may contain oil as an ingredient, and with allied substances, such as turpentine and gum-resins.
A Manual of Oils, Resins, and Paints, for Students and Practical Men.
By Dr. H. Ingle. Vol. I., Analysis and Valuation, by the author and J. A. L. Sutcliffe. Pp. 129. (London: C. Griffin and Co., Ltd., 1915.) 3s. 6d. net.
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A Manual of Oils, Resins, and Paints, for Students and Practical Men . Nature 95, 202 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095202a0
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