Chemistry- Systematic (I.c) CHEMISTRY INORGANIC AND ORGANIC WITH EXPERIMENTS AND A COMPARISON OF EQUIVALENT AND MOLECULAR FORMULE. BY CHARLES LOUDON BLOXAM, PROFESSOR OF PRACTICAL CHEMISTRY IN KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON; PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY IN THE PREFACE. Ar the present time, when there is so much difference of opinion as to the clearest mode of representing the constitution of chemical compounds and the changes in which they are involved, the author of a work on Chemistry is placed in a difficult position. Fully realising this, I should scarcely have ventured to undertake the task, but for the circumstance that, a third edition of "Abel and Bloxam's Handbook of Chemistry" being required, and my valued coadjutor not having leisure to devote to its preparation, it seemed to me a favourable opportunity for re-writing the handbook in such a form as to render it more useful to the general student. The present work, therefore, is designed to give a clear and simple description of the elements and their principal compounds, and of the chemical principles involved in some of the most important branches of manufacture. Keeping this in view, I have employed as few technical terms as possible, especially at the commencement, so that the student may glide into Chemistry without having first to toil through a difficult chapter on the terminology of the science, which he can never appreciate until he has become acquainted with the examples which serve to illustrate its application. Convinced, by experience, of the great assistance afforded to the learner by referring him to a simple illustrative experiment, I have introduced, generally in smaller type, a description, and in most cases a wood-engraving,* of the experiments which I have found most useful in illustrating lectures, hoping that these may prove of * These were drawn by Mr Collings and engraved by Mr Hart, to whom I feel much indebted for their patient endeavours to represent faithfully the various forms of apparatus. |