| RefNo | PP/11/23 |
| Previous numbers | PP/43/24 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Paper, 'On the relative densities of hydrogen and oxygen' by Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt] |
| Date | 1888 |
| Description | Strutt writes: 'The appearance of Professor Cooke’s important memoir upon the atomic weights of hydrogen and oxygen induces me to communicate to the Royal Society a notice of the results that I have obtained with respect to the relative densities of these gases. My motive for undertaking this investigation, planned in 1882, was the same as that which animated Professor Cooke, namely, the desire to examine whether the relative atomic weights of the two bodies really deviated from the simple ratio 1:16, demanded by Prout’s Law. For this purpose a knowledge of the densities is not of itself sufficient; but it appeared to me that the other factor involved, viz., the relative atomic volumes of the two gases, could be measured with great accuracy by eudiometric methods, and I was aware that Mr. Scott had in view a redetermination of this number, since in great part carried out.'
Annotations in pencil and ink throughout.
Subject: Physics / Chemistry
Received 2 February 1888. Read 9 February 1888.
A version of this paper was published in volume 43 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the relative densities of hydrogen and oxygen. Preliminary notice'. |
| Extent | 30p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink and graphite pencil on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1887.0148 |
| RelatedRecord | PP/18/27 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA6090 | Strutt; John William (1842 - 1919); 3rd Baron Rayleigh; experimental and mathematical physicist | 1842 - 1919 |