Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Report of the Chemist for 1910
Five hundred and three chemicals were examined to Check the qual ity of the reagents supplied to the Bureau of Chemistry and the branch laboratories on contract, as well as to other laboratories of the Department. Some improvements have been made in the general quality of the chemicals during the past year, and in many instances the manufacturers have improved on the style of container and the method of labeling. The rejections from the various lots of chemicals has been about 5 per cent. Some of the rejections and the reasons for same are as follows: Absolute ether, containing peroxids; absolute alcohol, containing foreign organic matter and aldehydes; Citric acid. 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.
