The 1940's

Most of the books written during the World War 2 years were published after the war. Belcher and Wilson authored Qualitative Inorganic Microanalysis [Belcher, R. and C.L. Wilson (1946)], in 1946. Ten years later the second edition came out under the title, Inorganic Microanalysis; Qualitative and Quantitative [Belcher, R. and C.L. Wilson (1957)].  Many of the Emich-Schneider/Benedetti-Pichler/Chamot and Mason techniques and apparatus are utilized here.

The year 1946 also saw the first edition of Frank L. Schneider's Organic Qualitative Analysis [Schneider, F.L. (1946)], which we will see again in 1964 as the much enlarged, Qualitative Organic Microanalysis [Schneider, Frank L. (1964)].

The book, Reagents for Qualitative Inorganic Analysis (1948) reports on new analytical reactions and reagents (Figure 50).

M.N. Short’s book on the Microscopic Determination of the Ore Minerals (Figure 51), published in the previous decade, came out as a second edition in 1940 [Short (1940)].  This volume contains a section on microchemical methods, and Figure 52 is one of the color photomicrographs illustrating a microchemical test for silver.

Also in 1948, Kofler and Kofler's Mikromethoden zur Kennzeichnung organischer Stoffe and Stoffgemische [Kofler, L. and Adelheid Kofler (1948)], was issued.  An English translation of this book was made by McCrone in 1952, and was, at one time, available from the McCrone Research Institute.

click image to enlarge (87K) Figure 50. Title page of Reagents for Qualitative Inorganic Analysis (1948).

click image to enlarge (58K) Figure 51. Title page of Short’s Microscopic Determination of the Ore Minerals, Second Edition (1940).

click image to enlarge (190K) Figure 52. Photomicrographs of a microchemical test for silver in Short’s Microscopic Determination of the Ore Minerals, Second Edition (1940).

The 1950's

In 1950 there was a second printing of Benedetti-Pichler's Introduction to the Microtechnique of Inorganic Analysis [Benedetti-Pichler, A.A. (1942 and1950)].  In 1954 there appeared another edition of Feigl's Spot Tests... [Feigl, Fritz and Vinzenz Anger (1937, 1939, 1946, 1954, 1958)], [Feigl, Fritz (1937, 1939, 1946, 1954, 1956, 1960)], Maljaroff's Qualitative anorganische Mikroanalyse [Maljaroff, K.L. (1953 and 1954)], first published in 1953, went into a second edition the following year.

Harold F. Schaeffer's very popular Microscopy For Chemists [Schaeffer, Harold F. (1953)], was published in 1953.  It is a splendid book that went out of print, but demand for it remained sufficiently high, and Dover reprinted it.  And now the Dover reprint (Figure 53) is no longer available.  The experiments in this book make it an excellent teach-yourself choice.

Alimarin and Archangelskaja's Qualitative Halbmikroanalyse [Alimarin, I.P. and W.N. Archangelskaja (1956)], was published in 1956.

And in 1958 Malissa and Benedetti-Pichler's Anorganische qualitative Mikroanalyse  [Malissa, H. and A.A. Benedetti-Pichler (1958)], was published.

click image to enlarge (142K) Figure 53. Front cover of the Dover reprint of Schaeffer’s Microscopy for Chemistry (1953).