A text-book of inorganic chemistry / by Dr. A.F. Holleman ... Issued in English in coöperation with Hermon Charles Cooper.

  • Arnold F. Holleman
Date:
1912
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Credit: A text-book of inorganic chemistry / by Dr. A.F. Holleman ... Issued in English in coöperation with Hermon Charles Cooper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    riiEFAOK TO THE FOUKTH FH)rnON. The present edition represents a thorough revision of the work by the Dutch author and the American collaborator. It profits by the author’s experience with the frequent editions in other languages but is independent in composition. Wry many of the descriptive portions have been rewritten, notably those on the sulphur oxides and acids, rare gases, nitrogen oxides and acids, sodium h}^droxide and carbonate, radio-active elements and platinum, as well as the sections on thermo- chemistry, colloids and the iron-carbon system, while the sub- jects of stability and the reality of molecules and atoms furnish new material. The chapter on metal-ammonia compounds is reprinted as approved by Professor Werner for the third edition. Notwithstanding the appearance of differential formulae in the book, it is believed that a student who is unfamiliar Tvith the calculus should have little difficulty in understanding the meaning and use of such formulae, provided he is vailing to take the author’s word for the solutions of the equations. Independent students may well be cautioned against regard- ing any text-book as infallible. Even in a book with a Avorld market, such as this one enjoys, undergoing many revisions by the author and by collaborators in other qations, and being frequently reviewed critically by the journals, there will, probably, ahva3s be some textual errors and some passages whose lucidity could be improA'ed. Headers can therefore render great service by reporfing all unsatisfactorv passages to the publishers. Thanks are herewith expressed to my colleague. Professor H. Monmouth S.mith, for constant aid in detecting errors. Ib'ferences in the text to “ Org. Chem.” refer to the coni]:)anion volume of this work, Holleman’s “ Text-book of Organic Chem- istry,” translated by Walker and Mott. H. C. Cooper. (Syracuse University, October, 1911.
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