IT will be remembered that the first edition of Thorpe's “Dictionary of Applied Chemistry” appeared in 1890, when the great “Watts” was at the same time abridged and edited by Dr. Foster Morley and Mr ...

THE present day intensely rapid development in all branches of natural science necessarily involves a growing terminology with which even the specialists find difficulties in keeping pace.

Chemical formulas and graphical molecular structures have, over time, replaced written words to form a specialized yet universal language for chemists. This is a point made more than a decade ago by ...