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Excerpt from Commercial Organic Analysis, Vol. 2: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of Assaying, and Proximate Analytical Examinations of the Various Organic Chemicals and Products Employed in the Arts, Manufacturers, Medicine, &C.; With Concise Methods for the Detection and Determination of Their Impu
The arrangement of the subject-matter in numbered paragraphs has been abandoned as valueless. In the chapter on fixed oils and fats the specific gravities of bodies lighter than water are compared with water taken as 1000, in accordance with a widely-extended custom; but I have not realised any advantage from this mode of expression, and hence in the subsequent chapters the densities are compared with water taken as unity. The growth of the subject-matter has compelled me to omit the chapters on the aromatic acids and tannins. They will form part of the Third and con cluding Volume of the work, together with chapters on colouring matters, cyanogen compounds, organic bases, albuminoids, &c. Much of the matter for this volume is already written. 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.
