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Sir James Dewar, 1842-1923

A Ruthless Chemist

By: J.S. Rowlinson

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Sir James Dewar was a major figure in British chemistry for around 40 years. He held the posts of Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy at Cambridge (1875-1923) and Fullerian Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution (1877-1923) and is remembered principally for his efforts to liquefy hydrogen successfully in the field that would come to be known as cryogenics. His experiments in this field led him to develop the vacuum flask, now more commonly known as the thermos, and in 1898 he was the first person to successfully liquefy hydrogen. A man of many interests, he was also, with Frederick Abel, the inventor of explosive cordite, an achievement that involved him in a major legal battle with Alfred Nobel. Indeed, Dewar's career saw him involved in a number of public quarrels with fellow scientists; he was a fierce and sometimes unscrupulous defender of his rights and his claims to priority in a way that throws much light on the scientific spirit and practice of his day. This, the first scholarly biography of Dewar, seeks to resurrect and reinterpret a man who was a giant of his time, but is now sadly overlooked. In so doing, the book will shed much new light on the scientific culture of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries and the development of the field of chemistry in Britain.

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1317054695

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Molecular Theory of Capillarity

By: J. S. Rowlinson,B. Widom

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Molecular Theory of Capillarity

By: J. S. Rowlinson,B. Widom

History of surface phenomena offers critical and detailed examination and assessment of modern theories, focusing on statistical mechanics and application of results in mean-field approximation to model systems. 1989 edition.

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Courier Corporation

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0486317099

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Liquids and Liquid Mixtures

Butterworths Monographs in Chemistry

By: J S Rowlinson,F L Swinton

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Liquids and Liquid Mixtures

Butterworths Monographs in Chemistry

By: J S Rowlinson,F L Swinton

Liquids and Liquid Mixtures, Third Edition explores the equilibrium properties of liquids and liquid mixtures and relates them to the properties of the constituent molecules using the methods of statistical thermodynamics. Topics covered include the critical state, fluid mixtures at high pressures, and the statistical thermodynamics of fluids and mixtures. This book consists of eight chapters and begins with an overview of the liquid state and the thermodynamic properties of liquids and liquid mixtures, including vapor pressure and heat capacities. The discussion then turns to the thermodynamics of and inequalities at the critical point; measurement of thermodynamic functions in the critical region; experimental values of the critical exponents; and scaling of the free energy. The change of thermodynamic functions with composition is the subject of the next two chapters, followed by an analysis of fluid mixtures at high pressures. The final chapter is devoted to the statistical thermodynamics of fluids and mixtures, paying particular attention to the thermodynamic properties in terms of the forces between the molecules; the balance of intermolecular potentials between like and unlike molecules; and phase behavior. This monograph will be of interest to students and researchers in the fields of chemistry and chemical engineering.

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Butterworth-Heinemann

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1483140679

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Cohesion

A Scientific History of Intermolecular Forces

By: J. S. Rowlinson

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Cohesion

A Scientific History of Intermolecular Forces

By: J. S. Rowlinson

Why does matter stick together? Why do gases condense to liquids, and liquids to solids? This book provides a detailed historical account of how some of the leading scientists of the past three centuries have tried to answer these questions.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139435884

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Invasive Alien Plants An Ecological Appraisal for the Indian Subcontinent

By: J.R. Bhatt, J.S. Singh, S.P. Singh, R.S. Tripathi and R.K. Kohli

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Invasive Alien Plants An Ecological Appraisal for the Indian Subcontinent

By: J.R. Bhatt, J.S. Singh, S.P. Singh, R.S. Tripathi and R.K. Kohli

Invasive alien species are a major threat to biodiversity and ecosystems throughout the world. In India, a country with three of the world's most important 'biodiversity hotspots', the invasion of alien plants means risking a national ecological disaster with major social and economic consequences. Currently there is insufficient information about invasive alien plants; their distribution, rate of spread and adaptability to new environments. This book reveals existing and potential invaders, evaluates the level of risk they pose to native species and suggests steps to manage spread and limit d.

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CABI

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1845939085

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Bursting the Limits of Time

The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Revolution

By: Martin J. S. Rudwick

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Bursting the Limits of Time

The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Revolution

By: Martin J. S. Rudwick

In 1650, Archbishop James Ussher of Armagh joined the long-running theological debate on the age of the earth by famously announcing that creation had occurred on October 23, 4004 B.C. Although widely challenged during the Enlightenment, this belief in a six-thousand-year-old planet was only laid to rest during a revolution of discovery in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In this relatively brief period, geologists reconstructed the immensely long history of the earth-and the relatively recent arrival of human life. Highlighting a discovery that radically altered existing perceptions of a human's place in the universe as much as the theories of Copernicus, Darwin, and Freud did, Bursting the Limits of Time is a herculean effort by one of the world's foremost experts on the history of geology and paleontology to sketch this historicization of the natural world in the age of revolution. Addressing this intellectual revolution for the first time, Rudwick examines the ideas and practices of earth scientists throughout the Western world to show how the story of what we now call "deep time" was pieced together. He explores who was responsible for the discovery of the earth's history, refutes the concept of a rift between science and religion in dating the earth, and details how the study of the history of the earth helped define a new branch of science called geology. Rooting his analysis in a detailed study of primary sources, Rudwick emphasizes the lasting importance of field- and museum-based research of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Bursting the Limits of Time, the culmination of more than three decades of research, is the first detailed account of this monumental phase in the history of science.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226731146

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9780226731148

Molecular Theory of Capillarity

By: J. S. Rowlinson,B. Widom

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Liquids and Liquid Mixtures

Butterworths Monographs in Chemistry

By: J S Rowlinson,F L Swinton

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Butterworths Monographs in Chemistry

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Book's by J.S. Rowlinson

Sir James Dewar, 1842-1923

Sir James Dewar, 1842-1923

Molecular Theory of Capillarity

Molecular Theory of Capillarity

Liquids and Liquid Mixtures

Liquids and Liquid Mixtures

Cohesion

Cohesion

Invasive Alien Plants An Ecological Appraisal for the Indian Subcontinent

Invasive Alien Plants An Ecological Appraisal for the Indian Subcontinent

Bursting the Limits of Time

Bursting the Limits of Time

Molecular Theory of Capillarity

Molecular Theory of Capillarity

Liquids and Liquid Mixtures

Liquids and Liquid Mixtures

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