For courses in General Chemistry (Lecture and Laboratory) and Qualitative Inorganic Analysis.

This self-teaching lab manual presents a process for learning descriptive chemistry and the chemistry of the more common elements and their compounds in the format of a scheme of analysis. Students and challenged to call upon their manipulative and observational skills to provide the basis for identifying a substance or a mixture of substances. 

Part I describes the strategy of qualitative analysis so that students have a review of the principles readily available when they are engaged in the details of laboratory work.

Part II presents the concepts involved in qualitative analysis, systematically dealing with the nature of the chemical compounds.

Part III features well-tested analytical laboratory procedures.