PREFACE. THIS book was written primarily to meet the needs of the authors own classes in Industrial Quantitative Analysis, and it is given to the pubIic in the belief that there is a demand for a concise work on the analysis of paints and paint products. Numerous books have been written during the past few years dealing with the subjcct of Paints, discussing in a general way the properties of the various pigments and their methods of manufacture. But the author is not acquainted with a single work that will serve as a guide to a chemist of ordinary training in taking a can of mixed paint, of practically any shade or tint, making a complete analysis of it and furnishing him sufficient data, derived from a large numbr of analyses, so that he may interpret the rcsults of his own analysis in a rational manner....