Steel Works Analysis (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Steel Works Analysis (Classic Reprint) written by J. O. Arnold and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-08 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Steel Works Analysis This little work has been written specially for assistants in steel works laboratories and students taking up the analytical chemistry of iron and steel with a view to becoming steel works chemists. The great object kept in view by the author has been to produce a practical book: he has therefore avoided compilation, and written from personal experience. The first essential in any analytical process is accuracy: when this can be combined with rapidity, well and good; but where speed is obtained at the expense of accuracy, the result is worse than useless, it is misleading. On the other hand, the appalling elaboration with which the authors of some text-books proceed to separate possible or impossible traces of rarely occurring elements from those invariably present, often defeats its own object, and together with a great loss of time, introduces errors far greater than those it is intended to avoid. It is to be regretted that the writers of books on iron and steel analysis usually deem it necessary to describe without comment every method - good, bad, and indifferent - which has ever been published, thus leaving the student in doubt as to which is really the best process to employ. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.