The gases of the atmosphere : the history of their discovery /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ramsay, William, 1852-1916
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Macmillan and co., limited, 1915.
Edition:4th ed.
Subjects:
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.