Coal-Tar and Ammonia

Abstract

THIS well-known book is one of the acknowledged classics of chemical technology. Originally published in 1882, it has now reached its fifth edition. Perhaps nothing could possibly serve to illustrate more strikingly the extraordinary development of chemical industry during the past third of a century than a comparison of the contents and size of the volumes of the successive editions. The 1882 edition, which all authorities agreed was a faithful reflection of the then condition of this particular industry, consisted of a modest volume of some 370 pages, of which about 300 treated of coal-tar, its origin, properties, distillation, fractionation, etc., while fewer than sixty pages were devoted to the subject of ammoniacal liquor, its treatment, and the manufacture of the more industrially important ammoniacal salts, the remainder of the book comprising tabular matter, conversion tables, appendix, and index.

Coal-Tar and Ammonia.

By Prof. G. Lunge. Fifth and enlarged edition. Part i. Coal-Tar. Pp. xxix + 527. Part ii. Coal-Tar. Pp. xi + 531 to 1037. Part iii. Ammonia. Pp. xvi + 1041 to 1658. (London: Gurney and Jackson, 1916.) Price, three parts, 3l. 3s. net.