Excerpt from Introduction to Scientific German: Air, Water, Light, and Heat; Eight Lectures on Experimental Chemistry A present or past participle used attributively (le. Before a noun) with its preceding qualifiers (words or phrases limiting it or depending upon it) forms the so called participial construction. As this constitutes one of the chief characteristics of style in scientific German and often presents great difficultie$ to the student, a brief method for mastering it is given. 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.