The atomic theory / By Ad. Wurtz ... Tr. by E. Cleminshaw ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wurtz, Ad. (Adolphe), 1817-1884.

Contributor:

Cleminshaw, Edward, translator.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Series:

International scientific series ; vol. 29.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Atomic theory.

Physical Description:

viii, 344 pages : folded diagram ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : D. Appleton and company, 1881.

Contents:

I: Atoms. Historical introduction ; Richter ; Dalton

Law of volumes : Gay-Lussac ; Avogadro and Ampère ; Berzelius

Prout's hypothesis ; Law of specific heats ; Isomorphism

System of chemical equivalents ; Equivalent notation

Present system of atomic weights ; Gerhardt and Laurent ; Cannizzaro

The new system of atomic weights respects and renders evident the analogies which exist between bodies

Atomic and molecular volumes

II: Atomicity. Definition and historic development of the idea of atomicity

Affinity and atomicity, two distinct properties of atoms

Constitution of bodies deduced from the theory of atomicity

Hypothesis upon the constitution of matter

Appendix. Water of crystallisation [i.e., crystallization]

The constitution of double salts

The isomerism of the amyl alcohols

The action of heat upon gases.

Notes:

Series title also at head of t.-p.

OCLC:

3236310