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THERE are now several of these small books of questions in chemical arithmetic before the public, and although serving a very useful purpose, the tendency to run into purely arithmetical exercises with a flavour of chemical connection or application is apparent to a greater or lesser degree in all of them. This is to be regretted, as there is plenty of room for purely chemico-arithmetical problems and questions. And then again it is not desirable that more time than necessary should be taken up by the chemical student in solving arithmetical problems, seeing the immense amount of work to be done by the chemical student before he attains to a very moderate knowledge of the subject. We have an ever-increasing number of students who pass elementary and advanced examinations but who are completely fixed by problems in practical or theoretic chemistry whose solution demands only a knowledge of the fundamental properties of the elements and the effects of mass or temperature. The questions in this little book are varied and not too numerous in any one section, and should be useful as leading up to chemical thinking.
Numerical Exercises in Chemistry.
By T. Hands., Science Master in Carlisle Grammar School. (London: Sampson Low and Co., 1884.)
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Our Book Shelf . Nature 30, 239 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/030239a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/030239a0