Essays on the Floating-Matter of the Air: In Relation to Putrefaction and Infection (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

John Tyndall

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0365352861 ISBN 13: 9780365352860

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2019

Synopsis

Excerpt from Essays on the Floating-Matter of the Air: In Relation to Putrefaction and Infection

In my researches on the decomposition of vapours by light, I was compelled to remove these 'atomes' and this dust. It was essential that the space con taining the vapours should embrace no visible thing that no substance capable of scattering light in the slightest sensible degree should, at the outset of an experiment, be found in the wide experimental tube in which the vapour was enclosed.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0365352861
• ISBN 13: 9780365352860
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 362