A Text-Book of Qualitative Chemical Analysis

Abstract

STUDENTS of chemistry usually begin their working lives with the study of qualitative analysis, carried out too often in crowded laboratories with inadequate equipment: it is the equivalent to “grubbing weeds from garden paths with broken dinner knives”. Such education is supposed to make “better men than you or I” doubtless because of its practical basis, but to-day we are sufficiently enlightened to wed practice with theory from the beginning and to realize that the more one understands what one is doing the greater the interest in the task becomes. A Text-Book of Qualitative Chemical Analysis By Dr. Arthur I. Vogel. Second edition. Pp. xi + 486. (London, New York and Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., 1941.) 10s. 6d.