Excerpt from The Chemistry of Colloids and Some Technical Applications

It is curious that although colloid chemistry owes its development in no small degree to British investigators, hitherto there has been not only no English text-book on the subject, but no text-book in English available, the foreign works that have been translated dealing with particular aspects of the subject only, or with its bearings on other sciences.

The present book, based on my lectures on Heterogeneous Systems delivered to advanced students in the University of Edinburgh, will, it is hoped, meet the want of a convenient text-book, and at the same time serve as a reference book for workers in other sciences, who are becoming more and more interested in colloids. To increase its usefulness in the latter direction, a section on the applications of colloid chemistry has been added. It makes no claim to be complete or exhaustive, indeed, many important applications arc not even mentioned, but it seemed better to deal at some length with a number of selected examples, rather than to give a mere catalogue of the many branches of pure and applied science in which it plays a part Further, a large amount of experimental data has been included throughout the book, with the idea that this may be of use to those interested in the subject.

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