Abstract
OF all the branches of quantitative analysis practised for the control of industrial processes, none is of greater importance than that which concerns iron. The precise relationship of chemical composition to mechanical properties is by no means fully ascertained; but a great deal of excellent work has been done in this direction, and we know in several cases the kind of variation in physical properties which is, cæteris paribus, to be expected to accompany a variation in the quantity of one constituent. We know, moreover, how extraordinarily great this physical change may be, compared with the change in composition. When we reflect that a quantity, which in most other technical analyses is within the error of experiment, may become the criterion by which an iron is appraised, we must recognize the necessity of accurate methods of analysis for this particular commodity.
The Chemical Analysis of Iron.
By Andrew Alexander Blair. (London: Whittaker and Co. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1888.)
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The Chemical Analysis of Iron. Nature 40, 51–52 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/040051a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/040051a0
