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Discovery of the first inert gas
Discovery of the first inert gas
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Author:
Title: Rayleigh, Lord; and William Ramsay
Place Published: Argon, A new Constituent of the Atmosphere
Publisher:City of Washington
Date Published: Smithsonian Institution
Description: 1896


Illustrated throughout with line drawings and tables. (Folio), embossed green cloth with blindstamping and titles in gilt on upper board, pale yellow clay-paper endpages, in the original plain-paper dust-wrapper. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge 1033.



Single sheet containing prospectus and “Library catalogue slips” laid in. Argon was the first of the inert gases to be discovered and both Rayleigh and Ramsay claimed to be the first to identify it eventually agreeing to submit a jointly authored paper. Both men later won the Nobel prize (Rayleigh for Physics and Ramsay for Chemistry) and this work was a major factor in both awards. A revised version of this work had been published in the Philosophical Transactions a year earlier.

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Jacket soiled and chipped at edges, dampstained on rear and spine; volume spine rubbed.
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