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STUDENTS of chemistry so often complain of the extreme difficulty of obtaining access to chemical works that it may be well to bear in mind that the universities and technical schools of the United Kingdom have perhaps a remedy for what is a serious obstacle to a proper study of chemistry. The amount of chemicals now consumed in educational laboratories must be enormous, and, as regards ordinary materials, quite sufficient to employ a large factory. A very large proportion comes from Germany. Let the universities start their own cooperative factory for the manufacture of the acids and salts they require. Let chemical students both have free access to it and put in part of their chemical course as workers there. The action of several universities in running their own farms for the benefit of agricultural students supplies a kind of precedent. When motives of education, patriotism, and economy point the same way, the scheme is worth consideration.
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CHEMIST Access to Chemical Works. Nature 78, 413 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/078413b0
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