Excerpt from The Elements of Thermal Chemistry I have endeavoured to deal with the various parts of the subject from the point of view of the chemical, rather than from that of the physical, inquirer. The two-sidedness of all the problems examined in Thermal Chemistry makes this a subject in which one is very ready to go astray. 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.