 | University of Virginia record February, 1914 |  |
SCHOOL OF ANALYTICAL AND INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY.
Professor Dunnington.
Mr. Dinwiddie.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The general
entrance requirements.
Students taking courses in Analytical Chemistry are required to
pay a special tuition fee of $40 for each course taken. Each student
is required, also, to pay a laboratory fee of $10, and to make a deposit
of $10 for one course, $15 for two courses, to cover the cost of
apparatus.
The regular work of this school, constituting a complete course
in Practical Chemistry, is divided into three courses, as follows:
For Undergraduates.
Analytical Chemistry B1: Qualitative Analysis.—This course
consists of three lessons a week throughout the session, after each
in the laboratory. A course in chemical manipulation is first
given, then Blow-pipe 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. (B. A. or B. S. credit, 6 session-hour.)
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 10-11. Laboratory hours
by appointment. Analytical Laboratory. Professor Dunnington, Mr.
Dinwiddie.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Analytical Chemistry C1: Quantitative Analysis: Analytical
Chemistry B1 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 full course in Quantitative Analysis of minerals,
ores, coal, soil, iron 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. The
laboratory is open to students six days in the week, during all the
working hours of the day. Analytical Laboratory. Professor Dunnington,
Mr. Dinwiddie.
Industrial Chemistry C2: Chemistry B1 or Analytical Chemistry
B1 prerequisite.—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,
upon which, in large measure, depend the development of
the natural resources of the country.
Among the more important subjects discussed are: the metallurgy
and uses of the principal METALS and ALLOYS, 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;
disinfectants, soap, paper, etc.
A clear comprehension of all lines of Industrial manufacture is
the aim proposed in this course, a preparation needed by students
lectures are designed to give some accurate information about materials
with which every one is concerned in daily life, it is judged
that they will afford a valuable addition to a general education.
The subjects specially related to Agriculture are treated of in different
portions of this course. There is a weekly quiz and weekly
written exercises are required. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 3-4.
Analytical Laboratory. Professor Dunnington.
Text-Books.—F. H. Thorp's Outlines of Industrial Chemistry; Roger and Aubert's
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 expense
and pains in this country, England, France, and Germany, and
are unusually extensive and good; among the best on this side of the
Atlantic.
Students who accomplish the work of classes B1, C1, C2, in this
school, together with Chemistry B1, B2, C1, are prepared for entering
upon work in these several lines of industry.
Primarily for Graduates.
Analytical Chemistry D1: 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 Analytical Chemistry B1, Analytical
Chemistry C1 and Industrial Chemistry C1, in this School and Courses
B1, B2, and C1 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. Professor Dunnington.
The Analytical Laboratory is a building planned and erected for
the purpose. It is warmed throughout by hot water, completely fitted
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.
| University of Virginia record February, 1914 | |