The elements of thermal chemistry / by M.M. Pattison Muir ; assisted by David Muir Wilson.

  • Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison), 1848-1931.
Date:
1885
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    look on as fundamental lirinciples of the subject—the law of maximum work, and the interpretation of thermo-chemical data in terms of the molecular theory—until the last chapter of the book. The book is divided into two parts. The first part is devoted to the statement and consideration of the various branches of thermal chemistry : the second comprises most of the well-established data on which the science is built; these data are classified and tabulated in five appendices, which it is hoped will prove of considerable service to students. Data relating to melting and boiling points are omitted, because their insertion would have made the book very bulky, and also because they are to be found fully and carefully collected in Dr Camelley’s tables. No data are given relating to specific heats of solids or of solutions; for these the student is referred to Naumann’s work, and to Clarke’s Constants of Nature. Where the thermal value of the same operation has been measured by various experimenters, preference is always given to the results obtained by Thomsen; for this reason many numbers which are found in Naumann’s work are omitted from the appendices. Chemical formulae are used sometimes as synonymous with the names of the bodies formulated, and sometimes with a definite quantitative meaning: I think the context will always indicate where a quantitative meaning is to be given to these formulae. The principal calorimetric methods adopted by Thomsen, Berthelot, and other experimenters, are described, and the more important instruments are figured. References are given to all original papers or treatises of importance. I have made free use not only of Naumann’s Thermochemie, but also—and to a very large extent—of Thomsen’s Tliermo- chenvische Untersuchunjen, and Berthelot’s Essai de Chimique Mdcanique.