Title: The gases of the atmosphere : the history of their discovery /
Authors: Ramsay, William, 1852-1916
Publisher: Macmillan,
Year: 1896
Subjects: Air; Argon; Chemistry History; Gases; Chemistry history; Air analysis; Gases chemistry; Argon
Contents: The experiments and speculation 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 "eminations."