Stories
- Article
What is air, and how do we know?
Watching bubbles in fermenting beer led 18th-century scientist Joseph Priestley to invent sparkling water – and to discover that different gases make up the air we breathe.
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The art of scientific glassblowing
Exciting things happen when art, craft, engineering and science collide. Glassblower Gayle Price is proof of that.
Catalogue
- Books
Oxygen and the conversion of future feedstocks : the proceedings of the Third BOC Priestley Conference / sponsored by the BOC Gases Division Trust ; and organised by the Royal Society of Chemistry in conjunction with the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, London September 12th-15th 1983.
BOC Priestley Conference 1983 : London, England)Date: [1984], ©1984- Pictures
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Chemistry: a piece of steel wire burning in oxygen inside a glass jar. Mezzotint, 1809.
Date: 1 July 1809Reference: 47809i- Books
The biology and chemistry of active oxygen / editors, J.V. Bannister and W.H. Bannister.
Date: [1984], ©1984- Books
Chemistry transformed : the paradigmatic shift from phlogiston to oxygen / H. Gilman McCann.
McCann, H. Gilman, 1942-Date: 1978- Audio
Elements of surprise : oxygen's poisonous life force.
Date: 2002