Excerpt from A Treatise on Practical Chemistry and Qualitative Inorganic Analysis: Adapted for Use in the Laboratories of Colleges and Schools This treatise was commenced to supply a course of Practical Chemistry to my own classes. I was encouraged to proceed with it by finding that the want of a sufficiently systematic and Oxplanatory Laboratory text-book was very widely felt. It has been my aim throughout to give all necessary directions so fully and simply as to reduce to a minimum the assistance required from a teacher. The language employed has, I trust, been rendered simple and intelligible by avoiding the unnecessary use of scientific terms, and by explaining or paraphrasing in ordinary words any such terms when they are introduced for the first time. 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.