Technical Methods of Chemical Analysis

Abstract

THIS work, in its English form, is the result of a cooperation of German and English chemists, who have together sought to adapt the latest German edition to English conditions of manufacture. The entire volume extends to upwards of 1200 pages, but it is divided into two parts, presumably to suit the convenience of technical chemists who may be mainly interested in special branches of manufacture. Generally speaking, part i. is concerned with inorganic processes, and for the most part deals with the metals and their compounds, although it includes also methods of examining artificial fertilisers, feeding stuffs, explosives, matches, fireworks, and calcium carbide. Part ii. mainly deals with the products of the destructive distillation of coal, illuminating gas and ammonia, coal tar, the synthetic organic dyes, and naturally occurring organic dye-stuffs. The work, we think, might have appealed to a wider circle of readers if it had been still further subdivided. The consulting analytical chemist will no doubt find the entire volume of use, but the metallurgical works chemist is seldom, if ever, concerned with the subject of fertilisers and feeding-stuffs, and has but a very limited interest in matches and fireworks.

Technical Methods of Chemical Analysis.

Prof. George Lunge. English translation from the latest German edition, adapted to English conditions of manufacture. Edited by Dr. C. A. Keane. Vol. ii. Part i, pp. xxvii + 610. Part ii., pp. xii + 611-1252. (London: Gurney and Jackson, 1911.) 2 parts price 33s. net.