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Excerpt from A Text-Book of Experimental Chemistry (With Descriptive Notes) For Students of General Inorganic Chemistry While no particular claim to originality is made for this text-book, as many of the experiments have been described previously, yet the writer believes that the book will be found to be something more than a mere compilation. It grew originally out of a personal demand for a textbook which would embody: (a) a clear, accurate and comprehensive presentation of the fundamentals of the science; (b) specific directions for laboratory work, coupled with such questions as lead the student to observe, compare and generalize, and would therefore provide a method for the scientific development of the principles under discussion; (c) a sufficient amount of discussion and application of the principles involved in the experiments to foster the interest and to direct the observations that energy may not be spent indiscriminately, and (d) those physico-chemical generalizations which are essential to the explanation of much of the phenomena of inorganic chemistry. This book represents an endeavor to meet these requirements. It is not intended that it shall take the place of a large descriptive work or the instruction of the teacher; on the contrary, it is designed to provide, primarily, an experimental course in general chemistry, and by the use of "descriptive notes" and questions vitally relate it to the lecture-room work. It is scarcely necessary to emphazise the importance of laboratory work as being essential to a thorough comprehension of the subject; but this same work has a very doubtful value unless it is carefully directed and correlated with the lecture and text-book. It must not be merely a mechanical part of the course. The student must see that his laboratory work is but a means to an end - that lectures and experiments are mutually helpful. Very frequently the laboratory work is taught too much apart from the course. Beginners often complain, and more frequently conduct their work as if no relation existed between lectures and laboratory work. It is contended, therefore, that the laboratory manual should provide something to make obvious this relationship and to assist in the fusion of the two. 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.