Volumetric Analysis

Abstract

FOLLOWING on Vol. 1 dealing with the general theory of volumetric analysis, Dr. Kolthofi has produced a work on practical methods which in its way is different from the well-known standard works dealing with the subject. The author does not claim to deal particularly with special methods of applied chemistry, but, as a matter of fact, the general considerations and the exhaustive discussion of general methods suffice to give the reader the necessary indications for accurate procedure. As an example of this, we have in Chap. xiii. what appears at first sight to constitute a general discussion of certain methods. Actually the chapter is a very full description of iodometric processes for both inorganic and organic compounds. The limitations of the methods and the author's experience are given, the discussion of the errors and details being full enough for most purposes: for example, the discussion of the hydroquinone titration on p. 453. A short chapter is devoted to the useful iodate method developed by Andrews, and the use of bromate is likewise properly stressed.

Volumetric Analysis.

Prof. Dr. I. M. Kolthoff, with the collaboration of Dr. H. Menzel. An authorised translation based on the German Text by Prof. N. Howell Furman. Revised and enlarged by the Author. Vol. 2: Practical Volumetric Analysis. Pp. xiv + 552. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1929.) 25s. net.