Publisher's Synopsis
From the PREFACE.
When the author was studying Qualitative Analysis in college he felt the great need of a complete list of inorganic substances, giving such properties as would enable him to corroborate the results given by the tests in salt analysis. Looking up the desired information in the larger reference books consumed much time and was often unsatisfactory. During several years' teaching of the subject he has felt the need of such a work more and more; therefore, about five years ago he compiled a temporary manuscript list of about six hundred salts and laid it out for the general use of the class in Qualitative Analysis. The copy was used considerably by the students, - simply to corroborate the tests, never to replace the actual systematic testing at the laboratory desk. The results were so satisfactory that he decided to revise and enlarge the list, particularly as it was early seen that all chemists would find it a helpful reference work; hence the appearance of this little book.
The tables on the following pages give the principal properties of such substances as may reasonably be looked for in a course in Qualitative Analysis. No attempt is made to record every known salt of every metal. Consequently, only the metals of the six groups usually studied are included, together with their oxides, hydroxides and more common salts. To increase the value of the book for general reference, tables are added covering the acids, non-metals and rare metals....
