Abstract
THE subject of chemistry increases by leaps and bounds, not only owing to the continual discovery of new inorganic and organic substances, but also because of the introduction into the science of novel conceptions and ideas involving in many cases a new and highly technical terminology. Readers of current memoirs on chemical research often feel the need for a glossary of chemical terms owing to the rapidity with which the language of chemistry is changing. To the non-technical reader much of this literature appears to be a jargon which becomes ever less intelligible, but since chemistry has an educational aspect as well as many important industrial applications, it remains desirable that non-scientific members of the community should not be entirely ignorant of chemical facts and phraseology.
Chemical Encyclopaedia: an Epitomised Digest of Chemistry and its Industrial Applications.
By C. T. Kingzett. Fourth edition. Pp. viii + 807. (London: Bailliére, Tindall and Cox, 1928.) 35s. net.
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M., G. Chemical Encyclopædia: an Epitomised Digest of Chemistry and its Industrial Applications . Nature 122, 471 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122471a0
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