The gases of the atmosphere : the history of their discovery /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Macmillan and co., limited,
1915.
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| Edition: | 4th ed. |
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Table of 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.