Technically, it was Antoine Lavoisier that proved we have an internal combustion engine, but let’s give the guinea pig credit. It nearly froze in Lavoisier’s special calorimeter to prove something new ...
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TWENTY-FIVE years ago the author of this book placed chemical teachers and students under a lasting debt by the publication of an essay on “Avogadro and Dalton”—a very careful historical and critical ...