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Washington, D.C.: GPO Magazine. Good. Soft cover. pp143-153. Removed from ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1899. VG. In plastic report covers. Sir William Crookes, (1832-1919), an English chemist and physicist, was the president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. He discovered thallium and invented the radiometer. He was also interested in psychical research. It's interesting to see what the "latest achievements of science" were in 1898 when this address was delivered..
The Bakerian Lecture. - On radiant matter spectroscopy: the detection and wide distribution of Yttrium. In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. For the year MDCCCLXXXIII, Vol. 174. by CROOKES, Sir William (1832-1919) - 1883
by CROOKES, Sir William (1832-1919)
The Bakerian Lecture. - On radiant matter spectroscopy: the detection and wide distribution of Yttrium. In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. For the year MDCCCLXXXIII, Vol. 174.
by CROOKES, Sir William (1832-1919)
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London:: Harrison and Sons, 1883., 1883. 304 x 242 mm. 4to. Pages 891-918. [Entire volume: iv, [8], (1)-271, [1 blank]; iv, [2], 459-549, [1 blank], 583-638, 645, 691, [1 blank]; 717-721, [1 blank], 817-863, [1 blank], 891-988 pp.] 1 fig., tables. Early green cloth (ca. 1909), printed paper spine label; lightly rubbed. Ex library bookplate of the Plainfield Public Library, Plainfield, New Jersey, rubber stamps on edges. Very good. Beginning in the 1880s, Crookes occupied himself with the examination of the phosphorescent spectra produced by bombarding minerals with radiant matter, an effort which led him to speculate on the origin of the elements. Most substances gave continuous phosphorescent spectra, but the beautiful discontinuous spectra produced by rare earth minerals led him to suspect in 1881 that these ores contained many unknown elements. Crookes found that yttria could be separated by fractionation into five or more parts that were differentiated only by their slightly different solubilities in ammonia and by the different prominent lines in their phosphorescent spectra. It turned out later that Crookes had been totally misled by impurities in his samples. DNB, 1912-1921, pp. 136-137; DSB, III, pp. 474-482.
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- Date Published 1883
- Keywords Spectroscopy