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WITHIN the last few years several works of this character have been published under various titles. Con-sequently the fact that the present volume has attained a third edition within a comparatively short time shows that it has supplied a well-defined want, and indicates that a knowledge of chemistry is becoming more and more indispensable to growing sections of our population, such as merchants, brokers, barristers, financiers, manufacturers of all kinds, pharmacists and the like. Chemistry is now so intertwined with almost all walks of life that probably every educated man at some time or other has wished to know something about a substance which he has found necessary for some purpose, and it is to such a class that the present book will appeal. He will here find a brief but clear account in non-technical language of almost every chemical substance that has attained any practical importance, with some of the principal constants inserted. Even professional chemists, who have access to exhaustive treatises on chemistry, will find the book handy for rapid reference, especially as it is clearly printed and attractively bound.
Chemical Encyclopædia: A Digest of Chemistry and Chemical Industry.
By C. T. Kingzett. Third edition. Pp. x + 606. (London: Bailliere, Tindall and Cox, 1924.) 30s. net.
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 114, 403 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114403b0
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