Abstract
THE present collection of examples is accompanied by explanatory matter which is found in all the usual textbooks and could quite well have been omitted. Whilst brief summaries of the theory are desirable in the case of books of calculations on physical chemistry, they take up space and add to expense in elementary works. The examples given are very suitable for students taking the Intermediate Science and Higher School Certificate examinations. Answers are provided to alternate problems only. The calculations in volumetric analysis are all based on the use of normalities, and an insistence on this will remove the habit acquired by some students of working out such results by unnecessarily long and unscientific methods. The book is a good and straightforward collection of problems which should fulfil the purpose for which it was written.
Chemical Calculations: their Theory and Practice.
By A. King Dr. J. S. Anderson. Pp. x + 181. (London: Thomas Murby and Co.; New York: D. Van Nostrand Co., Inc., 1933.) 4s. 6d. net.
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[Short Reviews]. Nature 133, 369 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133369c0
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