The new physics and chemistry
Subtitle: a series of popular essays on physical and chemical subjects
By: by W.A. Shenstone....
Publisher: Smith, Elder & Co.
Published: 1906
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
Subjects: Matter, Constitution of.; Ether (Space); Earth, Density of.; Chemistry, Physical and theoretical.; Radioactivity.; Fermentation.; Life -- Origin.
Notes: Published originally in the Cornhill magazine.
Table of contents: title: Contents: Matter, motion, and molecules - Some recent speculations on the constitution of matter - Some recent theories of ether - Modern theories of light - Weighing a world - On weighing atoms - Some aspects of the new chemistry - The mechanics of chemical change - Radium - Radium and the interpretation of radio-active changes - Carbon and the shapes of atoms - Ferments and fermentations - About solutions - The origin of life.