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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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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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several groups of three chemical elements that behave very similar to each other in reactions. He could find several combina- tions of elements, and there were always three elements. Moreover, these elements [...] to identify several new elements. The more elements were known to chemists, the easier it became to find sub- stances that behaved similar. Figure 3 Mendeleev’s structuring of the elements. http://upload [...] undiscovered” (Moseley 1913, 713). In some sense, Moseley acts very similar to Mendeleev – he was able to find another math- ematical relation that described properties of the atoms, however, there were some gaps
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has in peacetime—food and clothing. In an effort to save money, he began to conduct experiments to find the cheapest and most efficient way of providing food and clothing. He also started a clothing workhouse [...] temperature, he moved the balance to a much colder room. After two days, he measured the bottles to find that, even with the water frozen, they were all the same weight as before. He moved the balance back
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scientific thinking and innovation with the brewer’s interest in highly accurate measurements. His findings and publications greatly improved the efficiency of many 19th century industrial machines and processes [...] heat could neither be created nor destroyed. Joule’s theory was so controversial that he could not find a scientific journal to publish it. It first appeared in a local Manchester newspaper. Finally he [...] become chemically attached and deliver charge. By carefully measuring currents, Joule was able to find the “affinity” of oxygen with plates of various elements. He then compared this with the heat produced
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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
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became a member of the Philosophical and Medical Society of Edinburgh. But his important scientific findings he published in 1753 in his classic work A Treatise on the Scurvy and dedicated it to Lord Anson
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hatched from other type of larvaes. This encouraged me to collect all the caterpillars that I could find, in order to study their metamorphosis and develop my painting skills, so that I could sketch them [...] Maria Sibylla continued the study the life cycle of butterflies. Conducted observations of insects, finding and sketching of caterpillars in the garden, bringing them to her laboratory to feed them with the
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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
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two-hundred-and-eighty thou- sand prisoners in Javanese prisons, Eijkman managed to find the cure. Using the findings of Eijkman’s study, scientists were able to isolate a nutrient called thiamin, also [...] spread across the West Indies in the late nineteenth century, one man was devoting all his efforts to finding a cure for it. This man was Christiaan Eijkman, and the disease was beriberi. Through careful ex [...] the recently widowed Eijkman, still suffering from malaria, joined the committee, whose task was to find the cause of the disease so that it could be cured, or at least prevented. Once again, Eijkman traveled