Paper, 'On the plasticity of an ice crystal' by McConnel

Description

McConnel writes: 'Two years ago, in the ‘Proceedings of the Royal Society,’ was published an account of some experiments on the plasticity of ice made by Mr Kidd and myself [see PP/12/26] [...] Since our paper was written, my attention has been called to a passage in Professor James Thomson’s masterly article on "The Lowering of the Melting Point of Ice by Distorting Stress" ('Phil. Trans.,' 1849), in which he expresses the opinion that crystals whether of ice or other substances, are not plastic.'

Annotations in pencil and ink. Includes eight plates of diagrams of experimental apparatus and observations.

Subject: Chemistry / Physics

Received 24 January 1891. Read 12 March 1891. Communicated by Richard Tetley Glazebrook.

A version of this paper was published in volume 49 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the plasticity of an ice crystal'.

Reference number

PP/17/23

Earliest possible date

1891

Physical description

Ink and graphite pencil on paper

Page extent

40 pages

Format

Manuscript
Diagram