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The gases of the atmosphere; the history of their discovery. By Sir William Ramsay ...

Title: The gases of the atmosphere; the history of their discovery. By Sir William Ramsay ...
Author: Ramsay, William, 1852-1916
Publication: London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1915.

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3 p.ℓ., v-xiii, 306, [2] p. front. (port.), illus., VIII plates (ports.); 20 cm.

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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.--The radioactive gases: the "emanations."

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542193
SCSB-10004824

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