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Makers of Modern Chemistry

1925

3) in air enclosed in a bell-jar over water and found that the volume of air diminished by about a twentieth as a result of the calcination and that the weight of the metal increased by an amount almost equal to that of the air destro1ed or absorbed." He naturally concluded that a portion of the air combined with the metal during its calcnation and that the increase in weight of the calx was [...] Priestley and the other leading dissenters of Birmingham because of their open and avowed sympathy with the revolutionists of France incurred the wrath of the local clergy and of the populace. [...] The first great blow to this state of things was the unprecedented implilse given to the cultivation of physical clear sight of the philosopher we cannot feel the same degree of respect for the 'floral character of the man'—Roscoe and Schorlemmer."LECTURE III 29 science. [...] Davy again like most of the chemists who flourished and became famous towards the close of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century came of a poor. [...] He effected a revolution in the process"48 MAKERS OF MODERN CHEMISTRY of bleaching by the application of chlorine ; he also discovered chlorate of potash in the course of his researches on the action of chlorine on alkalis.
technology medicine science
Pages
136
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.143293
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
i-xii Prafulla Ray view
Lecture I
1-10 unknown view
Lecture II
11-26 unknown view
Lecture III
27-38 unknown view
Lecture IV
39-71 unknown view
Lecture V
72-78 unknown view
Lecture VI
79-90 unknown view
The Story Of The Discovery Of Oxygen
91-106 unknown view
Vice-Chancellor’s Concluding Remarks
107-110 unknown view
Bibliography
111-111 unknown view
A History of Hindu Chemistry
1-2 unknown view

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