Beginners's Hand-Book of Chemistry
John Howard Appleton
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Add to basketSold by El Gato de Papel, MOUNTAINSIDE, NJ, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since 29 January 2021
Condition: Used - Good
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover book in GOOD condition. Contains the names of two of the previous owners in ink on the pastedown and front free endpaper. There is also the price of the book written in pencil on the free endpaper. Mild foxing throughout. Browning to page edges. Besides that there are no notations, underlining, or highlighting on any of the pages. Binding is tight. Wear to edges and corners and rubbing to boards. Actual book is pictured. See images provided.
232 pages. Notable for the chromolithographic prints of natural and industrial scenes illustrating chemical phenomena. These are in particularly good condition given the age of the book. This book was published by the Providence Lithograph Company in 1885. The copyright dates from 1884 by John Howard Appleton.
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"
Intended as an introduction to the study of chemistry, this volume contains illustrations throughout the text including color plates.The textbook emphasizes hands-on observation and deduction. It trained beginners to gather factual evidence through experiments before deriving broader chemical principles.
The author, John Howard Appleton (1844?1930), was a professor of chemistry at Brown University who authored 12 textbooks.
CONTENTS.
Chapter I.?The scope of chemistry
Chapter II.?The elementary substances
Chapter III.?Names and symbols of elements
Chapter IV.?Classification of the elementary substances; metals and non-metals
Chapter V.?Compound substances; examples of binary and ternary compounds
Chapter VI.?The construction of substances; the mass, the molecule, the atom
Chapter VII.?How chemical affinity works; the modern atomic theory
Chapter VIII.?Hydrogen; its discovery; method of preparation; its properties
Chapter IX.?Balloons; their invention and uses
Chapter X.?Chlorine; its preparation and properties; chlorohydric acid; bleaching powder
Chapter XI.?Bromine
Chapter XII.?Iodine
Chapter XIII.?Fluorine
Chapter XIV.?Oxygen; its discovery; its preparation; its properties; its relation to hydrogen; the compound blowpipe; its relation to combustion in general, and to animal respiration
Chapter XV.?Water; its importance to living beings; its terrestrial circulation; its influence on climate
Chapter XVI.?Sulphur; sulphuretted hydrogen; sulphur dioxide
Chapter XVII.?Sulphur trioxide; manufacture of sulphuric acid
Chapter XVIII.?Boron
Chapter XIX.?Nitrogen; its discovery; its properties; compound with hydrogen; compounds with oxygen; nitric acid
Chapter XX.?The Atmosphere
Chapter XXI.?Explosives; gunpowder; fireworks; fulminates; gun-cotton; nitroglycerine
Chapter XXII.?Phosphorus; friction matches
Chapter XXIII.?Carbon; charcoal; lampblack; coal; graphite; the diamond; other natural forms of carbon
Chapter XXIV.?Compounds of carbon and oxygen
Chapter XXV.?Illuminating gas
Chapter XXVI.?Silicon.
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