Excerpt from A Handbook of Inorganic Chemistry for the Use of Students IN preparing this Fourth Edition of my Handbook of Inorganic Chemistry, I have endeavoured to make such alterations and additions as have been rendered necessary by the progress of this branch of the science 3 and it will be found that but few sections are without considerable addi tions, Which I trust Will be deemed improvements. 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.