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THE first edition of this capital little book has been useful to students of evening classes for a number of years, and the appearance of the second edition will be welcome to their instructors in metallurgical analysis. The general arrangement is good, and has been maintained unchanged, but the book has been considerably enlarged. In addition to descriptions of the assay of the ores of the common metals and of the complete analysis of commercially impure metals, sections are devoted to special steels and other alloys, fuels, furnace materials, and slags. There is also some account of the analysis of the by-products of coke-ovens. The characteristic of the book is that as a rule only one method of determination is given in each case, but the methods are well chosen as having stood the test of time, and the descriptions are concise and accurate. Little is said about apparatus and reagents; there are few illustrations, and in general the book seems to be intended rather to remind students of what they have been taught than to take the place of laboratory demonstration. In cases where the more expensive standard works on analysis and assaying are inaccessible, this handy volume will be found to take their place with scarcely any disadvantage. It is small enough to slip into the pocket.
Aids to the Analysis and Assay of Ores, Metals, Fuels, etc.
By J. J. Morgan. 2nd edition. Pp. viii + 138. (London: Baillière, Tindall and Cox, 1915.) Price, cloth, 3s. net; paper, 2s. 6d. net.
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Aids to the Analysis and Assay of Ores, Metals, Fuels, etc. . Nature 96, 113 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/096113b0
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