 | University of Virginia record February, 1910 |  |
SCHOOL OF ANALYTICAL AND INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY.
Professor Dunnington.
Mr. Woodson.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination.
The regular work of this School, constituting a complete course
in Practical Chemistry, is divided into three courses, as follows:
For Undergraduates.
Course 1B: Qualitative Analysis: This course consists of three
lessons a week throughout the session, after each of which the
students spend three or four hours in practical experiments in the
Laboratory. A course in Chemical manipulation, is first given,
then Blowpipe Analysis, recognition of Ores, Fire Assaying of
Ores of Lead, Gold, and Silver, and a systematic course in Inorganic
Qualitative Analysis, followed by practice in analysis of salts, alloys,
and ores, the examination of potable water, coal, limestone, clay,
and so on, including some simpler quantitative determinations. Weekly written
exercises are required. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 10-11.
Laboratory hours by appointment. Chemical Laboratory. Professor
Dunnington, Mr. Woodson.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Course 2C: Quantitative Analysis: Course 1B is prerequisite.—The
work of this course is also given in three lessons a week throughout
the session, each being followed by four hours or more of practical
laboratory work. After some training in manipulation and gravimetric
estimations, the class pursues volumetric estimations and a
and steel, technical products, and so on. Weekly written exercises
are required. As the student advances in the course he is encouraged
to undertake original research and assist in its prosecution; and
in determining his fitness for graduation, work of this kind is considered
as having much weight. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 10-11.
Laboratory hours by appointment. Analytical Laboratory. Professor
Dunnington, Mr. Woodson.
The Laboratory is open to students six days in the week, during
all the working hours of the day.
Students may register either for the first course, or for both
courses at the same time; candidates for the M. A. elective are required
to complete both courses. Those who accomplish this are
prepared for work as Analytical Chemists, Assayers, Druggists, or
Teachers of Chemistry.
Among the works recommended to laboratory students are: Fresenius' Qualitative
and Quantitative Analysis, A. I. Cohn; Olsen's Quantitative Chemical Analysis;
Venable's Qualitative Analysis (3d ed.); Greville William's Hand-book of Chemical
Manipulation; Woehler's Examples for Practice in Chemical Analysis; Foye's HandBook
of Mineralogy.
Course 3C: Industrial Chemistry.—The work of this course is
given in three lectures a week throughout the session. A detailed
study is made of the chemical principles and processes of the more important
manufacturing industries of human life, upon which, in large
measure, depend the development of the natural resources of the
country.
Among the more important subjects discussed are: the metallurgy
of the principal METALS, the manufacture of acids, alkalies, salts, glass,
pottery and fertilizers; the preparation and preservation of FOOD, including
bread, meat, sugar, etc., the chemical arts relating to CLOTHING
such as bleaching, dyeing and tanning; the chemistry of arts concerning
BUILDING, including the manufacture of brick, lime and cement;
the production of artificial lights and heating; soap, paper, etc.
The subjects specially related to Agriculture are treated of in
different portions of this course. There is a weekly quiz and occasional
written exercises are required. Monday, Wednesday, Friday,
3-4. Analytical Laboratory. Professor Dunnington.
Text-Books.—F. H. Thorp's Outlines of Industrial Chemistry; Huntington &
McMillan's Metals, their Properties and Treatment. Recommended for reference:
Richardson and Watt's Chemical Technology; T. E. Thorpe's Dictionary of Applied
Chemistry; W. E. Roberts-Austen's Introduction to the Study of Metallurgy; Sadtler's
Hand-Book of Industrial Organic Chemistry, etc.
The collections of the University in illustration of the processes
and products of Industrial Chemistry have been procured at much
and are unusually extensive and good; among the best on this side
of the Atlantic.
Students who accomplish the work of classes 1B, 2C and 3C, together
with chemistry 1B, 2B and 3C are prepared for entering upon
work in these several lines of industry.
Primarily for Graduates.
Course 4D: Advanced Analytical Chemistry.—This graduate course
is designed for those seeking the degree of Ph. D., and also for such
students as desire to increase the range of their experience as
analysts, and to cultivate their powers of original investigation.
It is required for those who enter this course that they shall have
previously completed courses 1B, 2C and 3C in this School and
Courses 1B, 2B and 3C in the School of Chemistry, or that they shall
have previously made equivalent attainments elsewhere.
Laboratory work will be conducted daily, and suggestions and
due assistance will be given in its prosecution.
While the work is adapted to the special aims or tastes of each
student, it will in all cases comprise some practice in the more
elaborate processes of analysis, ultimate and proximate organic
analysis, some study in analytical methods and some original problems,
also the reading and the summarizing of extracts from current
journals, and, for all who are seeking the degree of Ph. D., a dissertation
embodying the results of some original research.
The Analytical Laboratory is a building planned and erected for
the purpose. It is warmed throughout by hot water, completely
fitted with the most approved appliances, and stocked with apparatus,
models, materials, and specimens. The main working room is furnished
with work-tables, gas, water, and all proper fixtures; smaller
rooms are devoted to weighing, evaporations, assaying, etc., and all
requisite apparatus, chemicals, minerals, materials for analysis, etc.,
are kept constantly supplied by home purchases and importation.
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