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increase the budget of the Bavarian army while increasing the number of troops and their wages, he had to find a means to re- duce costs. The first measure was to lower the costs of the soldiers’ uniforms by employing [...] part, based on experi- ments Santorio conducted on himself. On the opening page of his book, one finds an illustration of the ex- help with minor tasks if they wanted to do so (see Redlich 1971, pp. 184 [...] perspiration. Additionally, he invented measurement devices to determine pulse and body temperature. His findings are the first results from a long-term study on human metabolism. Energy in Combustion Whereas Santorio
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quackery. Its main purpose was to abuse uneducated people. In this chaos, it was extremely hard to find reliable data, so we cannot be sure what scientific theories existed in that time. These theories [...] nature and structure of matter” please discuss in your team this view. Research in the internet to find important experiments in the history of science, which were milestones for the development of science [...] element A that reacted with the same amount of element B to two different com- pounds. From this finding Dalton formulated another law. the law of multiple proportions characterizes that if two elements
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element A that reacted with the same amount of element B to form two different compounds. From this finding, Dalton formu- lated another law: the law of multiple proportions. This law states that if two elements [...] chemical ele- ments had the ability to emit such radiation. There were several more astonishing findings, among them the transformation of one element into another in the process of an α- or a β-decay [...] impact would break it into two smaller ones. Together with Strassmann, Hahn finally published his findings and pointed out that for him, as a chemist, he had to state that the resulting isotopes behaved
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Mouchot: Miners had found new coal de- posits in Eastern France; consequently, the neces- sity for finding an alternative source of energy for the steam engine did not exist any longer. More- over, in a report
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with this issue. However, Rumford published 1 The background of these experiments was the idea to find out which part of the (visible) spectrum might affect lenses in a telescope in the most significant [...] energy dis- sipation (and in this respect entropy) had been developed, both Joule’s and Carnot’s findings were no longer in contradiction. In some sense, this contradiction together with the growing ac- [...] is relevant for the acceptance of Joule’s work in the British scientific community: Ignoring his findings may in part be explained by the fact that Joule was a brewery owner in Man- chester. Even though
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managed to find suitable places to observe the lecture. Professor Georg Christoph Lichtenberg walked onto the platform, because of his height, and he started stately: ‘during today’s lecture we will find out
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her mother told her about their success in the laboratory finding a new and unexpected truth about Nature. Even though sometimes their findings in the end turned out to be erroneous. And of course there [...] his experimental findings. However, there was something else that puzzled them, something that seemingly had not been noticed by other researchers: Irene wondered, “If Chadwick’s findings are correct, and [...] (Indicative important points of this story: description of Irene and Frederic’s experiment, experimental findings of Anderson, experimental discovery of Chadwick, how these discoveries have affected their work
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future tasks to develop the under- standing of the underlying truths that explain our empirical findings. You see, chemistry is not yet finished.” The boy did not seem to be too pleased with this response [...] was about to deliver a lecture to the prestigious Royal Institution, a lecture that condensed the findings of his researches of the last years, re- searches that were triggered by this question the schoolboy [...] that could be composed (or produced by de- composing other substances). Instead, he was trying to find mathematical rules in the chemi- cal reactions that went beyond the recipe ap- proach. The easiest
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died there on 11 May 1686. However he had many activities and public functions, Guericke was able to find time to conduct various experiments in physics. Around the year 1650, he constructed the air pomp [...] the idea had been cor- rect!!! Otto thought about ways to make the barrel more solid but he couldn’t find any solution. But suddenly he had an idea! Iron! A barrel made of iron! The next day Otto went to [...] that squashed the barrel, then he was thinking in the right direction - then he would only have to find a body that was more solid than an iron bar- rel. Then he remembered one the ideas that Aristo- tle