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Paper, 'The complexity and the dissociation of the molecules of liquids' by William Ramsay

Reference number: PP/24/14

Date: 1894

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Ramsay writes: 'Since the publication of a research on the molecular complexity of liquids by Ramsay and Shields (‘Trans. Chem. Soc.,’vol. 63, p. 1191) two questions have arisen :—First: What other evidence is there as to the existence of complex molecules in certain liquids? Second: How can the amount of dissociation of associating liquids be inferred from measurements of their surface-energy?'

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 complexity and the dissociation of the molecules of liquids'.

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PP/24/14
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1894
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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15 pages
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Manuscript

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William Ramsay

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William Ramsay, Paper, 'The complexity and the dissociation of the molecules of liquids' by William Ramsay, 1894, PP/24/14, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_24_14/paper-the-complexity-and-the-dissociation-of-the-molecules-of-liquids-by-william-ramsay, accessed on 13 October 2024

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