The gases of the atmosphere
Subtitle: the history of their discovery
By: by William Ramsay
Edition: 3rd ed. / with portraits.
Publisher: Macmillan and Co., Ltd.
Published: 1905
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Air; Argon; Chemistry; History
Table of contents: title: 1. The experiments and speculations of Boyle, Mayow, and Hales; title: 2. "Fixed air" and "mephitic air" their discovery by Black and by Rutherford; title: 3. The discovery of "dephlogisticated air" by Priestley and by Scheele. The overthrow of the phlogisitc theory by Lavoisier; title: 4. "Phlogisticated air" investigated by Cavendish. His discovery of the composition of water; title: 5. The discovery of argon; title: 6. The properties of argon; title: 7. The position of argon among the elements; title: 8. The other active gases : helium, neon, krypton, and xenon; title: 9. The radioactive gases : the "emanations."