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Excerpt from A Text-Book of Inorganic Chemistry The nineteenth century was an era Of great prosperity for scientific, inquiry. For numerous phenomena explanations have been found which possess a great degree Of probability. Still it cannot be denied that the present theories penetrate only a little into the real essence Of things, and the investigator Very soon stumbles upon questions whose explanation does not at present even seem to be a possibility. The chemical process that goes on when copper - to retain our former example - is heated in the air is well known. However, the deeper question, why the action takes place just SO and not otherwise, or why the resulting powder is black, still awaits a satisfactory answer. 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. 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.