Excerpt from Practical Notes on the Cyanide Process The recent valuable contribution of Professor Christy opens up a wide field for investigation. The author's own modest words give one an excellent idea of the complexity of the subject. It became necessary, he writes, to test de novo almost every step in the ground, so that an investigation, which I had hoped to finish in a couple of years, has already taken twice that time, and is new only fairly begun. 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.

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