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RefNoAP/60/8
LevelItem
TitleUnpublished paper, 'Relations between the atomic weights and certain physical properties (melting point, boiling point and heat of formation) of elements and compounds' by Thomas Carnelley
CreatorCarnelley; Thomas (1854-1890); British chemist
Date1877
DescriptionThe object of Carnelley's paper is to trace the influence of the atomic weights on the melting and boiling points and heats of formation of elements, and especially of their compounds. It is shown that, as regards the elements, the melting points are a periodic function of their atomic weights, whilst, for compounds, several conclusions are drawn, including: that the melting and boiling points and heats of formation of the normal halogen compounds of the elements are a periodic function of the atomic weights of the constituent elements; that the influence of the halogens on these same physical properties increases with the number of its atoms in the compound; and that in any normal halogen compound the influence of either of the elements on the melting or boiling point increases with its own atomic weight, and decreases with the atomic weight of the other element.

Annotations in ink throughout. Marked on front as 'Archives'.

Subject: Chemistry

Received 10 June 1879. Communicated by H E [Henry Enfield] Roscoe.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 29 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Relations between the atomic weights and certain physical properties (melting and boiling points and heats of formation) of elements and compounds'.
Extent22p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1879.0032
RelatedRecordMC/11/374
RR/8/150
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8277Roscoe; Sir; Henry Enfield (1833 - 1915)1833 - 1915
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