Paper, 'On the relative densities of hydrogen and oxygen. II' by Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]

Description

Strutt writes: 'In a preliminary notice upon this subject, I explained the procedure by which I found as the ratio of densities 15.884 [see PP/11/23]. The hydrogen was prepared from zinc and sulphuric, or from zinc and hydrochloric, acid, and was liberated upon a platinum plate, the generator being in fact a Smee cell, enclosed in a vessel capable of sustaining a vacuum, and set in action by closing the electric circuit at an external contact.'

Annotations in pencil and ink. Includes two diagrams of experimental apparatus.

Subject: Chemistry / Physics

Received 5 February 1892 / 6 February 1892. Read 18 February 1892.

A version of this paper was published in volume 50 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the relative densities of hydrogen and oxygen. II'.

Reference number

PP/18/27

Earliest possible date

1892

Physical description

Ink and graphite pencil on paper

Page extent

48 pages

Format

Manuscript
Diagram