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I. General Chemistry.
The course consists of three lectures a week throughout the session.
The fundamental ideas of chemical science, the relations of Chemistry
to Physics, the laws regulating chemical combination by weight and by
volume, the atomic theory as at present viewed in connection with
Chemistry, the chemical nomenclature and symbols now in use, and a
general survey of the descriptive chemistry of the elements and their
compounds, inorganic and organic, are brought forward in order, with
incidental allusion to the applications in medicine, the arts and manufactures,
of the facts mentioned.
Text-books:—Fownes's Chemistry, (last edition.) For reference:—Miller's, or
Roscoe & Schorlemmer's Elements of Chemistry; A. Naquet—"Principes de Chimie
fondée sur les théories modernes"; Watt's Dictionary of Chemistry.
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