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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 and New York, Macmillan and co., limited, 1902.
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Details
- Description
- x p., 1 l., 264 p., 9 port. (incl. front.) diagr.; 21 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- Preface dated 1900.
- First edition, 1896.
- Contents
- The experiments and speculations 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.
- Call Number
- 3-PLO (Ramsay, W. Gases of the atmosphere. 1902)
- LCCN
- 02029605 //r98
- OCLC
- 715935
- Author
- Ramsay, William, 1852-1916.
- Title
- The gases of the atmosphere: the history of their discovery, by William Ramsay.
- Imprint
- London and New York, Macmillan and co., limited, 1902.
- Edition
- 2d ed. With portraits.
- Research Call Number
- 3-PLO (Ramsay, W. Gases of the atmosphere. 1902)