The Medical Student's Manual of Chemistry (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Medical Student's Manual of Chemistry The determination of the specific weight of a substance is frequently of great service. Sometimes it afibrds a rapid means of distinguishing between two substances similar in appearance sometimes in determining the quantity of an ingredient in a mixture of two liquids, as alcohol and water an frequently in determining approximate the matter in solution in a liquid. It is the last object which we have inviewindetermining the sp. Gr. Of the urine. 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.