 | University of Virginia record February, 1911 |  |
SCHOOL OF ANALYTICAL AND INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY.
Professor Dunnington.
Mr. Woodson.
Mr. Dinwiddie.
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.
Analytical Laboratory. Professor Dunnington, Mr. Woodson, Mr. Dinwiddie.
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 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. Analytical
Laboratory. Professor Dunnington, Mr. Woodson, Mr. Dinwiddie.
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; J. H. Long's Qualitative Analysis
(3d ed.); Greville William's Hand-book of Chemical Manipulation; Woehler's
Examples for Practice in Chemical Analysis; and Assaying Notes of the
Professor.
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, 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.
A clear comprehension of all lines of Industrial manufacture is the
aim proposed in this course, and this is preparation needed by students
who expect to enter upon any branch of such work. Since these 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 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 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 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 worktables,
gas, water, and all proper fixtures; smaller rooms are devoted to
weighing, evaporations, assaying, etc.
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