Chemical re-agents or tests; and their application ... Improved and brought down to the present state of chemical science, by William Maugham / [Friedrich Christian Accum].

  • Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769-1838
Date:
1828
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Credit: Chemical re-agents or tests; and their application ... Improved and brought down to the present state of chemical science, by William Maugham / [Friedrich Christian Accum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. This Essay on Chemical Re-agents or Tests^ by Mr. Accum_, was put into the hands of the Editor for revisal^ previously to committing another edition to press ; and^ on looking it through, he found it necessary to expunge several parts, to re-write others, and to make such additions as the nature of the subject, from recent dis- coveries, continually required. He trusts that the alterations which have been made will render it more acceptable than the preceding to the young chemist, who, having already become conversant with the first principles of the most delightful, as well as most useful, of all sciences, is desirous of applying his knowledge to practice, but who requires some leading medium to conduct him from the elementary treatises he may have consulted, to the vmtings of the more distinguished chemical philosophers of this and of other countries, so as to enable him readily to comprehend them, and to enter with facility on his analytical inquiries. This work is in some measure calculated to supply that medium.