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Reference numberPT/58/15/4
LevelItem
TitlePlate, apparatus for finding coefficient of extinction for chlorine and hydrogen
by F Veith
Date[1857]
DescriptionDiagram showing an apparatus employed by Bunsen and Roscoe to find the coefficient of extinction for chlorine and hydrogen from chemical actions effected by a constant amount of light in columns of various lengths holding sensitive gas.

Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Photo-chemical researches.—Part III. Optical and chemical extinction of the chemical rays'.

Written by Bunsen and Roscoe in London. Communicated by Professor [George Gabriel] Stokes. Received by the Royal Society on 20 May 1857. Read 18 June 1857.
Extent1p
FormatDiagram
Physical descriptionInk diagram on paper
Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1856.0135
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1857.0030
Related records in the catalogueRR/3/36
PT/58/15
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA8155Bunsen; Robert Wilhelm (1811 - 1899)1811 - 1899
NA8277Roscoe; Sir; Henry Enfield (1833 - 1915); chemist and university administrator1833 - 1915
NA8283Stokes; Sir; George Gabriel (1819 - 1903); physicist1819 - 1903
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