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THE present volume is intended to supply the student with his second year's course of study, the first year having presumably been spent over the “non-metals.” The first section, occupying about one-third of the book; deals with chemical physics, the remainder being taken up with the systematic description of the commoner metals. There are three appendices, dealing with crystallography, spectrum analysis, and some suggested experiments. The section on chemical physics commences with a description, of the methods available for the determination of atomic weights, this being followed by a discussion of the relations existing between the numbers thus found and the physical properties of the elements. Chapters iv. and v. deal with dissociation, specific volume, and the optical properties of liquids. The chapter on solution is the largest in the section; but the treatment of this important branch of the subject is not so satisfactory as that of the other portions dealing with physical chemistry. Thus, while a considerable amount of space is devoted to the hypothesis of Grotthus,. which the student will afterwards have to unlearn, the work of Hittorf is not mentioned, although the latter forms the keystone of the modern theory of solution.
The Tutorial Chemistry.
Part ii. Metals. By G. H. Bailey. Pp. 300. (London: W. B. Clive, 1897.)
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The Tutorial Chemistry. Nature 57, 559 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/057559b0
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