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THIS book is a compilation of all the known methods of quantitative analysis. The processes and necessary apparatus are minutely detailed, the descriptions being reproduced from the various handbooks of chemistry and from the original memoirs. The labour entailed by such a work must necessarily have been very great, and its value is much increased by the numerous references to the original descriptions of the processes. This part extends as far as the article on carbonate of silver, from which some notion of the extent of the whole work may be obtained. The principles on which the analytical methods depend are shortly stated in each article, and under these headings are described the methods employed, and the precautions to be observed, the whole being arranged in separate paragraphs for facility of reference. This work promises to be very useful as a book of reference, and will enable the analyst to select without much labour the process most suitable to the work in which he is engaged. We recommend this book to the attention of analytical chemists, being convinced that it will be found to contain much valuable information in a very convenient form.
A Cyclopædia of Quantitative Chemical Analysis.
By Frank H. Storer, Professor of General and Analytical Chemistry in the Massachussetts Institute of Technology. Part I., pp. 112. (Boston and Cambridge: Lever, Francis, and Co. London: E. and F. N. Spon, Charing Cross, 1870).
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A Cyclopædia of Quantitative Chemical Analysis . Nature 3, 206 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/003206a0
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