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Paper, 'The molecular surface-energy of the esters, showing its variation with chemical constitution' by William Ramsay and Emily Aston

Reference number: PP/24/13

Date: 1894

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The authors write: 'The investigation of the thermal relations of a series of esters by Professor Young has made it possible to determine their molecular surface-energies between ordinary temperature and their critical points; for the two important constants required for the calculation of these properties, the densities of the liquids and of their vapours in the saturated state (their orthobaric volumes) have been carefully determined by him.'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Chemistry

Received 26 April 1894 / 1 May 1894. Read 14 June 1894.

A version of this paper was published in volume 56 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'The molecular surface-energy of the esters, showing its variation with chemical constitution'.

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PP/24/13
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1894
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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16 pages
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Manuscript

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William Ramsay

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William Ramsay, Paper, 'The molecular surface-energy of the esters, showing its variation with chemical constitution' by William Ramsay and Emily Aston, 1894, PP/24/13, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_24_13/paper-the-molecular-surface-energy-of-the-esters-showing-its-variation-with-chemical-constitution-by-william-ramsay-and-emily-aston, accessed on 13 October 2024

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