Dictionary of Chemistry (Classic Reprint): With Its Applications to Mineralogy, Physiology, and the Arts: With Its Applications to Mineralogy, Physiology, and the Arts (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Robert Dundas Thomson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330488245 ISBN 13: 9781330488249

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Popular Dictionary of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical with Applications to the Arts and Medicine. A clear, reference‑style guide that blends chemical theory with practical detail for everyday use and study. The book covers a wide range of terms, materials, and processes, offering concise definitions, properties, and references to how chemicals relate to the arts, industry, and science.

This edition presents accessible explanations and illustrative examples drawn from real applications, helping readers connect chemical concepts to real-world objects and tasks. It serves as a compact, reliable resource for students, professionals, and curious readers who want to understand chemistry beyond theory.

• Clear definitions and practical notes on minerals, compounds, and everyday substances


• Descriptions of natural and manufactured materials, their properties, and uses


• Examples that link chemistry to mineralogy, physiology, and the arts


• Historical context and concise explanations suitable for quick reference

Ideal for readers of science reference guides, students needing a dependable chemistry companion, and professionals seeking a compact, ready reference to chemical terms and their applications.

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Excerpt from Dictionary of Chemistry: With Its Applications to Mineralogy, Physiology, and the Arts The present volume was projected two years ago, but has been much interrupted in its progress. It is intended to serve as an introduction and familiar work of reference to the Science of Chemistry, a study in which, from its rapid advance, new names, and facts are accumulating with amazing rapidity. Had the object been to write an exhaustive treatise, the task would have been a comparatively light one, as materials had, to a great extent, been collected; but as the work was destined to be comprised within a very limited compass, the labour of selection, and therefore of an extensive criticism understood rather than expressed, was necessarily involved in the undertaking. The opportunities which the author has possessed for many years - generously afforded to him by the liberal and intelligent manufacturers of Glasgow and Lancashire - of personally studying practical chemistry on a great scale, induced him to commence a series of researches on the composition of various chemical substances, from'the first stage of the process of manufacture, through its varied phases, to the finished condition of the product. He was most energetically assisted in this inquiry by his ardent and indefatigable pupils, many of whom are now filling important positions. The results of several of these investigations have been included in the present volume. And although the author's removal to London has interfered with the prosecution of this branch of his subject to an extent which was not contemplated when the volume was originally projected, he takes the opportunity of referring to the articles on the manufacture of Copper, Keep, Lead, Carbonate op Soda, Pottery, as illustrations of a considerable amount of research in this department of practical science. On a future occasion it is anticipated that the results of further investigations will be added, aided by the liberal arrangements of

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1330488245
• ISBN 13: 9781330488249
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 574