Excerpt from Inorganic Chemistry
Thirteen years ago the author of this book began to teach qualitative analysis from the standpoint of the law of mass action and the theory of electrolytic dissociation. The results were encouraging in spite of the difficulty that as yet no suitable text in general inorganic chemistry had been written to prepare the student for a course of this character. When a few years later Ostwald"s masterly Grundlinien was translated into English, the need seemed to be met and the book was used as a text for a number of years at Kansas University.
Experience showed that Ostwald"s fundamental idea was right; that inorganic chemistry can be most profitably taught from the standpoint of elementary physical chemistry; but because of its length, and of the presumption of maturity on the part of the reader, the book proved not well adapted to the average college student. In the meantime a number of other books appeared written along the same general lines, each with many excellent points, but none of which seemed to satisfy exactly the requirements. So with reluctance, which would have been greater if he had realized the magnitude of the task, the author undertook the preparation of this volume.
It has been through a number of mimeographed editions and has been used by six classes; consequently it represents several years of effort and experience. While aware that it is not perfect, the author is convinced that it is thoroughly teachable and adapted to students in the early part of their college course.
The general plan adopted was to avoid a long more or less theoretical introduction, but to develop the subject as logically as possible from the descriptive and experimental side, presenting each law or theory at the point best fitted both to the student and to the subject. This plan has met general approval during the past generation.
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