Excerpt from Chemistry From the Industrial Standpoint
Many people have a habit of exclaiming, when a fact bearing on chemistry is mentioned to them, "Oh! that's Chemistry," in much the same tone of voice that they would use to declare it was Sanskrit. During the war a rumour has spread that chemistry and chemists have something to do with explosives (particularly high ones), poison gases, and dyes; but the connection is not at all clear to the man in the street. He has an hereditary horror of "chemicals," and to him a chemist is another name for a druggist.
This book endeavours to explain to the inquiring mind that all things are chemicals, and that the chemist does not work miracles, but merely takes advantage of the behaviour of substances. It is not a catalogue of useful chemicals, but, using the methods of making some important substances as the basis, shows the fundamental lines on which chemical processes operate.
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