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THIS course, by one who has made important contributions to inorganic chemistry, is based on the axiom that a student of chemistry should be given the opportunity of becoming acquainted with the appearance and reactions of as many materials as he can in the time available, since this opportunity may never be available in his later career. By combining a course on qualitative analysis with preparative experiments he has attempted to provide a wider basis of instruction, and since this course has been followed in his own institution at Munich, it is obviously a possible one. The order seems at first sight unusual, since experiments on potassium compounds, for example, are followed by halogens, these by silica and silicates, and hydrogen peroxide comes between oxyacids of sulphur and the oxides of nitrogen. Whilst this arrangement may have some advantages as proceeding from less to more difficult experiments, it would seem to conflict with the usual order of lecture courses and would probably not be found satisfactory in English universities.
Anorganisch Chemisches Praktikum:
für Studierende der Chemie und anderer Naturwissenschaftlicher Fächer. Von Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Manchot. Pp. viii + 103. (Dresden und Leipzig: Theodor Steinkopff, 1935.) 4.30 gold marks.
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Anorganisch Chemisches Praktikum. Nature 136, 739 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136739c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136739c0