Outlines of Chemistry
A Text-Book for College Students (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Outlines of Chemistry: A Text-Book for College Students<br><br>This book is intended to represent one year's work of chemistry in college. It should be used in connection with a course of experimental lectures and laboratory exercises. The matter has been selected so as to meet the needs of those that can devote but one year to the study of chemistry, and also to serve as a suitable basis for future work in the case of students who desire to pursue the subject further. In writing the book, the author has naturally had in mind the needs of his own students, over six hundred in number, who are preparing for careers in chemistry, pharmacy, medicine, engineering, or agriculture, or who desire a course in chemistry for work in other natural sciences or as a means of general culture.<br><br>In the first five chapters, experimental work has been placed in the foreground, and all reference to atomic and molecular theories has been purposely avoided in order that the student may properly be impressed with the fundamental facts and laws, which are independent of the theories, though they serve as a foundation for the latter. In the sixth chapter, these fundamental laws are then reviewed, and the atomic and molecular theories are presented as views growing out of the experimental facts. The nomenclature is then also introduced, and the reactions which so far have been written in words are expressed by means of chemical symbols. This offers an excellent opportunity for reviewing the experimental work of the foregoing chapters.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.