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The gases of the atmosphere: the history of their discovery
1905, Macmillan and co., limited
in English
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The gases of the atmosphere: the history of their discovery
1905, Macmillan and Co., Ltd.
in English
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The gases of the atmosphere: the history of their discovery
1902, Macmillan and co., limited
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The gases of the atmosphere: the history of their discovery
1896, Macmillan and co., ltd., The Macmillan co.
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The gases of the atmosphere: the history of their discovery
1896, Macmillan and co.
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Table of Contents
1. The experiments and speculations of Boyle, Mayow, and Hales
2. "Fixed air" and "mephitic air" their discovery by Black and by Rutherford
3. The discovery of "dephlogisticated air" by Priestley and by Scheele. The overthrow of the phlogisitc theory by Lavoisier
4. "Phlogisticated air" investigated by Cavendish. His discovery of the composition of water
5. The discovery of argon
6. The properties of argon
7. The position of argon among the elements
8. The other active gases : helium, neon, krypton, and xenon
9. The radioactive gases : the "emanations."



