A hand-book of industrial organic chemistry : adapted for the use of manufacturers, chemists, and all interested in the utilization of organic materials in the industrial arts / by Samuel P. Sadtler.

Date:
1895
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Credit: A hand-book of industrial organic chemistry : adapted for the use of manufacturers, chemists, and all interested in the utilization of organic materials in the industrial arts / by Samuel P. Sadtler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    The literature of Applied Chemistry is reasonably voluminous. We have dictionaries and encyclopaedic works upon the subject, a series of small hand-books for individual industries, and a mass of technical journals of both general and special application. Works, however, in which the effort is made to give within the bounds of a single volume a general view of the various industries based upon the applications of chemistry to the arts are much rarer, and especially is this true of works printed in the Eng- lish language. In German we have Wagner's Chemische Technologic/' brought down to date by its present editor, Ferd. Fischer; Post's Chem- ische Technologic, BoUey's Technische-Chemische Untersuchungen, Heinzerling's Technische Chemie, Ost's Chemische Technologic, and others; in French, Payen's Chimie Industrielle and Girardin's Chimie appliqu6 aux Arts Industriels, etc. ; while in English we have only the now antiquated translations of Wagner and Payen. In speaking thus, the writer wishes tc be understood as referring only to general works on chemical technology of moderate size. The excellent Dictionary of Applied Chem- istry, in three volumes, now being published by Longmans & Co., does not therefore come into the consideration, for the twofold reason of its size and of its encycldpsedic and disconnected method of treatment. Similarly, works which cover only a single side of the subject, like Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis, are not referred to in the above statement. The author has endeavored within the compass of a moderate-sized octavo to take up a number of the more important chemical industries or groups of related industries, and to show in language capable of being under- stood even by those not specially trained in chemistry the existing conditions of those industries. The present volume, it will be noticed, is limited to I'Industrial Organic Chemistry. This field, while .covering many very important lines of manufacture, does not seem at present to be so well pro- vided for as the inorganic part of the subject. A companion volume, covering this other side of industrial chemistry, is in contemplation. In taking up the several industries for survey, it has been thought de- sirable first to enumerate and describe the raw materials which serve as the basis of the industrial treatment; second, the processes of manufacture are given in outline and explained; third, the products, both intermediate and final, are characterized and their composition illustrated in many cases by tables of analyses; fourth, the most important analytical tests and methods in
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