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The gases of the atmosphere : the history of their discovery
- Title
- The gases of the atmosphere : the history of their discovery / by William Ramsay ...
- Author
- Ramsay, William, 1852-1916.
- Publication
- London : Macmillan and co., ltd. ; New York : The Macmillan co., 1896.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 240 p. : ill., ports.; 21 cm.
- Subjects
- Contents
- The experiments and speculation of Boyle, Mayow, and Hales.--"Fixed air" and "mephitic air": their discovery by Black and by Rutherford.--The discovery of "dephlogisticated air" by Priestley and by Scheele. The overthrow of the phlogistic theory by Lavoisier.--"Phlogisticated air" investigated by Cavendish. His discovery of the composition of water.--The discovery of argon.--The properties of argon.--The position of argon among the elements.--The other inactive gases; helium, neon, krypton, and xenon.--The radioactive gases; the "eminations".
- Call Number
- 3-PLO (Ramsay, W. Gases of the atmosphere. 1896)
- LCCN
- 14011718 //r90
- OCLC
- 1727467
- Author
- Ramsay, William, 1852-1916.
- Title
- The gases of the atmosphere : the history of their discovery / by William Ramsay ...
- Imprint
- London : Macmillan and co., ltd. ; New York : The Macmillan co., 1896.
- Research Call Number
- 3-PLO (Ramsay, W. Gases of the atmosphere. 1896)