A PRACTICAL CHEMISTRY FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS (CLASSIC REPRINT)

Excerpt from A Practical Chemistry for High School StudentsChildren are fond of pulling things apart, perhaps they wish to try to see how things are made and of what they are made. Older people are in some respects like children, they also want to know how things are made and of what they are made. But the objects of their curiosity are not, as a rule, articles manufactured by other men, but rather the vast number of things which are found in nature, such as water, air, wood, stone, coal, flour, fruits, eggs, etc. Grown people have done much at this taking things apart and have found out much about the composition of many things in nature and how they are made. They have called the process of taking things apart to learn their composition analysis. In many cases also men have learned to put things to gether to make substances and this is called synthesis. The people who do this kind of work are said to be chemists, and the study connected with the work is called chemistry. It is a very large study and its importance is very great, for it has done much to improve many of our manufactures.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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._,