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IN “Quantitative Analysis” Profs. Booth and Damerell have produced a text-book avowedly for elementary students, but it covers a fairly wide field in its thirty-four chaptfers. The authors have set out with the intention of impressing upon beginners in analytical chemistry the vital necessity for extreme accuracy. Indeed the clue to the whole tenor of the book is to be found in the introductory chapter where the authors state that “one of the most important requirements for successful experimental work is to be honest with oneself. A high degree of personal integrity is absolutely necessary for lasting success in any science”. To ensure that the student will thoroughly digest these truths, the authors have taken the greatest care to give very full details of procedure and explanations of experiments. In fact the wealth of advice, warning and instruction on laboratory technique which normally one learns only by long and often costly experience constitutes a novel feature of this text-book.
Quantitative Analysis
By Prof. Harold Simmons Booth Prof. Vivian Richard Damerell. (International Chemical Series.) Pp. xi + 246. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1940.) 15s.
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Quantitative Analysis. Nature 147, 525 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147525b0
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