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Gladstone writes: 'The idea of refraction equivalents has become familiar to those who work on the borderland of optics and chemistry, and the value of that property as a means of investigating the chemical structure of compounds is becoming more and more recognised. There is a similar property, perhaps equally valuable for the same object, which has attracted little attention hitherto; I allude to the equivalent of dispersion. During the last twelve months, however, I have collated old measurements of the length of the spectrum, whether made by myself or by others, and have added many new determinations, and I am now in a position to submit some of the results to the Society.'

Annotations in pencil and ink throughout.

Subject: Chemistry

Received 24 May 1887. Read 16 June 1887.

A version of this paper was published in volume 42 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Dispersion equivalents. Part I'.

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PP/10/51
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1887
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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17 pages
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Manuscript

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John Hall Gladstone

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John Hall Gladstone, Paper, 'Dispersion equivalents. Part I' by J H [John Hall] Gladstone, 1887, PP/10/51, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_10_51/paper-dispersion-equivalents-part-i-by-j-h-john-hall-gladstone, accessed on 04 November 2024

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