Lecture notes for chemical students. Vol. 1, Inorganic chemistry / by Edward Frankland.

  • Frankland, Edward, Sir, 1825-1899.
Date:
1870
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    PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. The contents of this little hook are to a great extent a transcript of the notes of my course of lectures on inorganic chemistry delivered at the Eoyal College of Chemistry; these notes having been considerably amplified only in the earlier chapters_, on nomenclature^ notation;, and the atomicity of elements. These notes were originally published in one volume^ but at the request of numerous readers I have now divided theiii into two^ of whieh the present_, on inorganic chemistry, is the first. The second volume, on organic chemistry, is nearly ready for the press, and will shortly be published. To render the work as eoncise as possible, all formal description of the properties of the bodies treated of has been, for the most part, entirely omitted. Such a descrip- tion (which is moreover easily accessible elsewhere) would, even if brief, have SAVollen the book to more than double its present size. For the same reason I have been compelled to treat the metallic elements in a manner which will doubtless seem, to many, unworthy of their importanee; but their nuinlier is so great, that any attempt to give more than the names and formulae of their ehief eom- pounds would have extended the work far beyond its present limits. My aim has been to classify and syste- matize rather than to describe, and I have endeavoured to