Excerpt from Essentials of Chemistry The authors have had exceptional opportunities to know the capacity of the average student and the train ing of the average teacher of science in secondary schools. They are fully aware of the limitations of these schools both as to laboratory equipment and as to the time which may reasonably be expected for the study of Chemistry. They have prepared the book with these limitations constantly in mind. A connected treatment of the descriptive matter of this work is attained by the division of the book into three parts: (1) the text proper; (2) the laboratory exercises the handbook. The text and the labora tory exercises are bound together; the handbook is in pamphlet form. 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.