Excerpt from Outlines of General Chemistry
The present edition of the "General Outlines" differs in many important respects from its predecessors. The reproach has always been levelled against the "Outlines" that it, in contrast with my other books, is too "difficult"; and, although so recently as in the last edition I expressed my inability to remedy this defect, I have since then borne in mind this just reproach. Accordingly, in the present edition, I have directed my energies in the first instance towards bringing this book more into line with the others. If I may accept the verdict pronounced upon portions of the book while passing through the press, these disadvantages to the reader have been successfully overcome.
The mechanical aids, as the division into short sections provided with headlines, and the use of spaced type to emphasise important ideas in the text, will meet the eye of even the casual reader. In addition, the whole text has been carefully revised with the same object in view, and I hope that I have succeeded in rendering the book more readily accessible.
Not only have I made important changes in the arrangement of the whole, and in the development of the fundamental principles of chemistry in accordance with the evolution of the science, but I have also introduced several new chapters, on ions in gases and radioactivity, and on colloids. The justification of the title selected for the latter chapter, microchemistry, will be found there. It will then be observed how naturally this subject, the phenomena of which are primarily conditioned by surface-energy, takes its place alongside of the older subjects of thermochemistry, electrochemistry, and photochemistry.
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