"He effected many improvements in analytical chemistry; devised the iodiometric method of volumetric analysis, and systematised the processes of water analysis."
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History of Chemistry (Thorpe)
History of Chemistry by Sir was written in 2 volumes: Vol. I. From the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century (1909); and Vol. II. From 1850 to 1910 (1910).
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