The gases of the atmosphere
Subtitle: the history of their discovery
By: by William Ramsay.
Edition: 2d ed. With portraits.
Publisher: Macmillan and co., limited
Published: 1902
Place of publication: London and New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Air.; Argon.; Chemistry -- History.
Notes: Preface dated 1900.
First edition, 1896.
Table of contents: title: The experiments and speculations of Boyle, Mayow, and Hales.; title: "Fixed air" and "mephitic air": their discovery by Black and by Rutherford.; title: The discovery of "dephlogisticated air" by Priestley and by Scheele. The overthrow of the phlogistic theory by Lavoisier.; title: "Phlogisticated air" investigated by Cavendish. His discovery of the composition of water.; title: The discovery of argon.; title: The properties of argon.; title: The position of argon among the elements.; title: The other inactive gases: helium, neon, krypton, and xenon.