Author: RAYLEIGH, LORD [J.W.Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh] & W. RAMSAY,
Title: Argon, a new constituent of the atmosphere.
Description: Washington, 1896. Large 4to. W. 5 ills. Fine original green publ. cloth. (IV, 43 pp.). DSB vol. XIII, 100-107. Comp. Dibner, Heralds, no. 50 (for first publ. in 'Transaction of the Royal Society' 1895) 'Rayleigh and Ramsay had noted that nitrogen obtained from the air had a density greater than that of nitrogen liberated from its compounds by about one-half percent. Thisled to the isolation of the first inert gases wich they called argon': First book editon and revised version of the Trans. o.t. Royal Soc.'1895:..."the Award Committee"' ...granted the first prize, of $10.000 dollars, for a treatise embodying some new and important discovery..."(preface).

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