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Excerpt from Chemical Experiments: Illustrating the Theory, Practice, and Application of the Science of Chemistry, and Containing the Properties, Uses, Manufacture, Purification, and Analysis of All Inorganic Substances; With Numerous Engravings of Apparatus, &C The Chemist and Druggist will find in this small book the best method of manufacturing every chemical substance which he is likely to want. The Lecturer will recognize the most remarkable properties of them all, clearly pointed out by such experiments as are easy and striking. The Student will be able to refer to and to repeat the experiments of the class room with facility. The Manufacturer will find the economical principles of his trade illustrated and the best receipts for his articles given. While he who seeks amusement only will have a wide field before him, from which he may cull the choicest owers; and should his means be limited, or his residence remote from cities, still little impediment will arise on this account, as one portion of the book assists the other; one experiment explains the manufacture of that substance of which other experiments explain the nature. When the work was first projected, it was intended to be a mere classified arrangement of amusing experiments, described in a popular manner, and without that rigid regard to the new nomenclature and analysis of chemical substances which a strictly scientific treatise should have; but as the work progressed this became necessarily more regarded, a minute ness of division induced a minuteness of language symbols and atomic weights were unavoidably attended by an accurate diction thus the work, from the second chapter to the close of it, will it is hoped be found scientifically correct in its language, as the whole of it is in its facts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work.