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VOL. 21 

 No. io 



THURSDAY. JANUARY 8, 1880. j ANKUA R L IC S E UB 5 scRfp N TiON $6 



RECENTLY PUBLISHED. 



First Book in Qualitative Chemistry. 



By Albert B. Prescott, Professor of Applied Chemistry in the University of Michigan, author of " Outlines of Proxi- 

 mate Organic Analysis," " Chemical Examination of Alcoholic Liquors,'* and joint-author of " Qualitative Chemical 

 Analysis." i2mo, cloth, 160 pages, $1.50. 



(FROM THE PREFACE.) 



This little manual has been prepared for certain classes who take a short course in qualitative chemical work, to attain some practical acquaintance with the 

 materials of every-day life, rather than to qualify as analysts. The scope jf the work includes a more definite study of bases and adds than is taught in ordinary 

 courses of Experimental Chemistry. and a broader study' of chemical characteristics than is provided in the common rudimentary Qualitative Analyst 

 Its limits as a First Book arc further explained by the circumstance that it is prepared, primarily, for use under teachers who also employ the author's larger 

 work upon Qualitative Analysis. 



Most teachers using this bwk will direct the work of their classes upon methods of their own. But to any who may be undecided, the author offers the 

 following Schbim lb of Study, by references to explicit directions in the body of the work. It is advised that, for every- two or three hours of labor. 

 an hour be given to recitations in the claii f Chemical Notation and the first principle* of chemistry. . . . Paragraphs 1 to 



19, inclusive. (2) Laboratory exercise in precipitation i -i die metals by Alkali Hydr.u. to use of the Reagents, see 20 and 21. {3) Practice with 



Alkaline Earth metals and their separations, as directed in 58. Require study of equations, as explained in 47. . . (4) I. Moratory practice with the Third 



Croup metals, and separations, 125. Chemical Problems, 70. . . . (5} Exercises with Second Group Metals, and Croup separations, 1S8. 

 with the Aci rJ in separation and distinction of Acids. 317 to 319. tS» Analysis of Unknown Mixtures. . . . 



CONDENSED TABLE OF CONTEXTS. 



Table of Atomic Weights and Quantivalencc. 



The Alphabet of Chemical Notation : Molecules and Atoms, Quantivalence. 

 Its, Hydrates and Oxides, Nomenclature, Grouping of Metals. 



Qualitative Reagents and their use. 



The Quahtatiz-e Chemistry of the Metals: Group V. The Alkali Metals, 

 Precipitations by Alkali Hydrates: Potassium, Sodium, Ammonium. 



The Alkaline Earth Metals, Tabular Comparison, Separations, 

 s), Strontium, Calcium. M 

 with Fourth GlOUp, 'hiblc for Analysis of Group IV., Table for 



Group III. Tabular Comparison, Separations, Zinc tChcmical Problems), 

 Aluminium, Iron, Ferric and Ferrous Compounds compared, 1 

 Oxidation se. Chromium, Cobalt, Nickel, Exer- 



1 Analysis of Group III. 



Group II. Comparison of Bismuth, Copper, and Cadmium ; Copper, Bismuth ; 

 1 of Lead, Silver, and Mercury: Lead, Silver, Mercury: Corn- 

 Antimony, Tin : Arsenic, Antimony, Tin : Table for 

 Analysi-- of Group I.; Table for Analvsis of Group II.; Exercises with 

 Second Group Metals; Gold, Platinum, Palladium, Molybdenum. 

 Qualitat::' Chemistry of the Metalloids atui Acids. Comparison of Chlorine, 

 Bromine. Iodine; Chlorine and Hydrochloric acid, Chloric acid, Hypo- 

 i.i, Bromine and Hydrobromic acid, Iodine and Hydriodic acid, 

 1 : Nitrogen, Nitric acid, Nitrous acid, Cyanogen and Hydrocyanic 



inic acid, Hydroferriijy.mi': acid, Sulphocyanic acid, Car- 

 .h id, Sulphur and Hydrosul- 

 •sulphuric acid. Sulphurous add, Thjosurphuric acid, Phosphorus 

 ric acids, Hypophosphorous acid. Boric acid, Salicie acid. 

 Fluorine and Hydrofluoric acid: Table for Volatile Acids: Table for certain 

 utile Acids: Table for Sulphuric, Oxalic, Phosphoric 

 Table for KUnv-Pipe Tests in the Bead: Dissolving Solids. 



Under the head of each metal is given a list of its compounds i 

 cal" forms with their systematic names. 



use, with popuhtr and pharmacop-x-ial names: and a note of the chief mineralogi- 



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