Excerpt from Laboratory Notes in Household Chemistry for the Use of Students in Domestic Science
The following pages are written as a guide and intro duction to the study of household science. It is not the object of the authors to put forth a work on the analysis of food and other kindred subjects met with in the practice of domestic science their sole aim is to throw some light upon the composition of food and other materials to the end that those practicing this most use ful of arts may achieve better results by understanding the more important properties of materials with which they deal.
Some knowledge of chemistry, both general and organic, is necessary and a clear idea of the essentials of physics is indispensable.
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