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A candidate shall present himself for examination in all four subjects.
The registrar, however, may allow a candidate who comes up for re-examination in either part to present himself for examination in those subjects only in which he has failed.
8. Part I of the examination may be taken at any time; but a candidate shall not be admitted to Part II until he has passed Part I.
9. A candidate who fails to attend or to pass in either Part I or Part II may be admitted to re-examination in such Part on payment of the prescribed fee.
PART I.
SYLLABUS FOR THE PRELIMINARY SCIENTIFIC EXAMINATION FOR CHEMISTS & DRUGGISTS.
Chemistry.
A WRITTEN AND PRACTICAL EXAMINATION.
An elementary knowledge of the following subjects:-The chief characteristics of chemical action, the distinction between elements and compounds; the laws of chemical combination by weight and volume; the hypotheses of Avogardo; atomic weight and molecular weight; chemical formulae and nomenclature; valency; the distinction between metals and non-metals, and the periodic classification of the elements.
The general characters of the non-metals; the chief methods of preparation and the typical reactions of the following non-metallic elements and compounds:-Hydrogen, oxygen, ozone, water, hydrogen peroxide, chlorine, bromine, iodine, and their compounds with hydrogen and oxygen; fluorine, hydrofluoric acid; nitrogen, aminonia and ammonia compounds, the oxides of nitrogen, nitrous acid, nitric acid; sulphur, hydrogen sulphide, sulphurous and sulphuric anhydrides and acids, thiosulphuric acid; phosphorus, phosphine, the oxy-acids and oxides of phosphorous, the chlorides of phosphorus, silicon, silica; boron, boric acid.
The general characters and classification of the metals and the general methods of forming oxides and salts; the sources, the general methods of extracting and the chief properties of the undermentioned metals, also the modes of preparation and properties of their principal compounds:
Potassium, sodium, lithium, barium, strontium, calcium, mag- nesium, zinc, aluminium, iron, chromium, manganese, nickel, cobalt, arsenic, antimony, tin, copper, bismuth, lead, silver, mercury, gold, and platinum.
Carbon, its oxides, methane, ethylene, and acetylene.
The methods of determining carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen in organic compounds and of obtaining molecular formulae.
N.B. The candidate is expected to solve simple problems relating to the weight and volume under different conditions of temperature and pressure, of elements and compounds concerned in chemical reactions.
Chemistry.
PRACTICAL EXAMINATION.
The candidate will be required to:
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Exhibit a practical acquaintance with the methods of preparing the more important inorganic substances.
Identify by chemical tests the more important non-metallic elements and their compounds, as well as the metals and salts in- dicated in the foregoing list.
Analyse a mixture containing not more than two basic and two inorganic acid radicles.