Duncan, Robert Kennedy. Chemistry of commerce: a simple interpretation of some new chemistry in its relation to modern industry. **$2. Harper.
7–31986.
A work which directs the attention of educated lay-folk to science in its subservience to the practical needs of the human race. The author develops the theory that modern science is applicable to the economy and progress of manufacturing and agricultural operations. He shows, among other illustrations of his theory, how the fixation of nitrogen and how industrial alcohol may operate to increase the success of a series of operations to which they are applied.
“It is a book for the open shelves of the public reading-room and one that the manufacturer and business man will profit by perusing, for it contains information on a great variety of topics impossible to get elsewhere in such convenient form.”
| + + | Ind. 63: 823. O. 3, ’07. 290w. |
“Has explained in a clear and interesting way many of the chemical processes used in the manufacture of common and uncommon things.”
| + | Ind. 63: 1238. N. 21, ’07. 30w. |
“This book has the rare qualification of being needed, for nowhere else can the average reader find recent discoveries and manufacturing processes so clearly and accurately explained.”
| + + | Nation. 85: 522. D. 5, ’07. 430w. |