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The gases of the atmosphere : the history of their discovery / by William Ramsay.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - E.F. Smith Collection 540.9 R145.2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ramsay, William, 1852-1916.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Air.
- Argon.
- Chemistry--History.
- Chemistry.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 296 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1905.
- 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
- The radioactive gases : the "emanations".
- OCLC:
- 945229
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