Laws and order in eighteenth-century chemistry / Alistair Duncan.
Laws and order in eighteenth-century chemistry / Alistair Duncan.
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Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Date
1996.
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T0388868
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Language
English
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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.
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Publisher
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
1996.
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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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Laws and order in eighteenth-century chemistry / Alistair Duncan.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-244) and index.
Transferred from N540.9033/1.
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T0388868
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ISBN
0198558066
9780198558064
DDC
540.9033
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991004999289702626