Inorganic chemistry for beginners

Preface

The publishers of the Elementary Lessons in Chemistry have brought before my notice the want of a work for those beginning the study of the science, in which the elementary principles of chemistry are more fully treated than is the case in the Lessons, whilst the description of the elements and their compounds is restricted to a few well-chosen typical examples. In the present pages I have endeavoured to fulfil the above requirements, and I have found no selection more suitable to the needs of beginners than that made many years ago for this purpose, and still found to be effective, by the Department of Science and Art. It will be seen that whilst the ground covered in this Httle book is confined to the discussion of a portion only of the non-metallic elements, a greater amount of detail is in each case given than was found to be possible

in the Lessons.

H. E. R.

August 1893.

Contents

ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES

LESSON PAGE

1. Solids, Liquids, and Gases i