Edwin Mellen Pr.

Memoirs of chemistry (1856) by C.J. Koene; a facing-page English translation of the French text Mémoires de Chimie.

His articles are now considered critical to experimental and environmental chemistry and earth science, yet for nearly 150 years they were forgotten. These articles, originating from about 1835 to 1845, include such topics as inorganic neutral oxysalts in general and phosphates, arseniates, phosphites and arensites in particular, the reaction and products of sulfurous acid and iron or zinc, nitric sulphate oxide and experimental demonstrations proving its non-existence, the nature of Aqua Regia, reciprocal actions of sulfurous and hyponitric acids, observations on the Theory of Péligot, the function of water, the formulation of hypoiodous acid, the existence of double salts in codeine and morphine, and the quantitative determination of chlorine and hydrochloric acid when the two gases occur together. McMenamin (geology, Mount Holyoke College) provides an elegant translation and comprehensive notes. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)