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Unpublished paper, 'An attempt to determine the adiabatic relations of ethyl oxide. Part I: Gaseous ether' by W [William] Ramsay and E P [Edgar Philip] Perman

Reference number: AP/67/4

Date: 1891

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The object of Ramsay and Perman's research is the determination of the behaviour of ether in the state of gas approaching towards the state of liquid, when heat is communicated to it, so as to alter its condition adiabatically.

Annotations in pencil. Includes one diagram of experimental apparatus.

Subject: Analytical chemistry

Received 16 March 1891. Read 16 April 1891.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 49 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'An attempt to determine the adiabatic relations of ethyl oxide. Part I. Gaseous ether'.

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AP/67/4
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1891
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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71 pages
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William Ramsay

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William Ramsay, Unpublished paper, 'An attempt to determine the adiabatic relations of ethyl oxide. Part I: Gaseous ether' by W [William] Ramsay and E P [Edgar Philip] Perman, 1891, AP/67/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_67_4/unpublished-paper-an-attempt-to-determine-the-adiabatic-relations-of-ethyl-oxide-part-i-gaseous-ether-by-w-william-ramsay-and-e-p-edgar-philip-perman, accessed on 18 April 2025

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