Water Analysis : a practical treatise on the examination of potable water / by J. Alfred Wanklyn.

Date:
1874
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    This book is designed to give an account of that kind of Water-Analysis which is proper for the examination of water intended for domestic use. In giving processes of analysis, we have been careful to prescribe only such operations as are practicable. Especially we have kept in view the necessity of economy in time. The com- plete examination of a sample of water, as set forth in the following pages—viz., the determination of solid residue, hardness, chlorine, nitrogen as nitrates and nitrites, ammonia, and organic matter—may be all done in the spacg of six hours, whilst a partial examination takes a very short time. In thus economising time, we do not think that we have made any sacrifice for accuracy. The process for determining nitrogenous organic mat- ter, termed by us the ammonia-method, and proposed by hir Miles H. Smith, and ourselves, at a meeting of the Chemical Society last year, occupies a prominent place