Mendeléeff D. The principles of chemistry. In two volumes. Volume I

London — New York — Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1897. — XVIII + 622 p.Translated from the russian (sixth edition) by George Kamensky.The first English edition of this work was published in 1891, and that a second edition is now called for is, we think, a sufficient proof that the enthusiasm of the author for his science, and the philosophical method of his teaching, have been duly appreciated by English chemists.In the scientific work to which Professor Mendeléeff's life has been devoted, his continual endeavour has been to bring the scattered facts of chemistry within the domain of law, and accordingly in his teaching he endeavours to impress upon the student the principles of the science, the generalisations, so far as they have been discovered, under which the facts naturally group themselves.Of those generalisations the periodic law is perhaps the most important that has been put forward since the establishment of the atomic theory. It is therefore interesting to note that Professor Mendeléeff was led to its discovery in preparing the first Russian edition of this book.It is natural, too, that the further application and development of that generalisation should be the principal feature of this, the latest edition.On water and its compounds.
The composition of water, hydrogen.
Oxygen and the chief aspects of its saline combinations.
Ozone and hydrogen peroxide — Dalton's law.
Nitrogen and air.
The compounds of nitrogen with hydrogen and oxygen.
Molecules and atoms. The laws of Gay-Lussac and Avogadro — Gerhardt.
Carbon and the hydrocarbons.
Compounds of carbon with oxygen and nitrogen.
Sodium chloride — Berthollet's laws — hydrochloric acid.
The halogens: chlorine, bromine, iodine, and fluorine.
Sodium.
Potassium, rubidium, cesium, and lithium. Spectrum analysis.
The valency and specific heat of the metals.