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Laws and order in eighteenth-century chemistry / Alistair Duncan.

Laws and order in eighteenth-century chemistry / Alista...

Laws and order in eighteenth-century chemistry / Alistair Duncan.

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Laws and order in eighteenth-century chemistry / Alistair Duncan.

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Full title

Laws and order in eighteenth-century chemistry / Alistair Duncan.

Publisher

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

Date

1996.

Call Numbers

T0388868

Record Identifier

74VvDGyapjdl

MMS ID

991004999289702626

Language

English

Formats

Physical Description

Physical content

viii, 253 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contents

1. The background of eighteenth-century chemistry -- 2. Chemical affinity and attraction in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries -- 3. Physical theories and their reception by chemists -- 4. Tables of affinity and chemical attraction -- 5. Classification, quantification, and explanation.

Publication information

Publisher

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

Place of Publication

England

Date Published

1996.

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Scope and Contents

Summary

The book also discusses chemists' efforts to account for double decomposition, to measure affinity or attraction quantitatively, to classify types of affinity, and to state laws of chemistry....

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Full title

Laws and order in eighteenth-century chemistry / Alistair Duncan.

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Notes

General note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-244) and index.

Transferred from N540.9033/1.

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Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

T0388868

Record Identifier

74VvDGyapjdl

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvDGyapjdl

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ISBN

0198558066

9780198558064

DDC

540.9033

MMS ID

991004999289702626

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