Helium by Keesom: First Edition (1 results)
Published by Eduard Ijdo, 1924-1928., In: Communications from the Physical Laboratory of the University of Leiden, Vol. XVII, No. 184. Leiden:, 1924
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Add to basket239 x 160 mm. 8vo. Pages 7-20. [Entire volume variously paginated.] 2 figs., 2 tables. Quarter black cloth, cloth corners, marbled boards, printed paper top cover and spine labels. Very good. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. "As a director of the Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory at Leiden, Keesom continued the tradition of low-temperature research, especially (although by no means exclusively) on helium. He was the first to solidify it, by applying external pressure to overcome 'repulsion' between the atoms, which in all other crystals is overcome by mutual attraction. Since the saturated vapor pressure is much lower than the pressure needed for crystallization, there is no triple point and the liquid state extends down to absolute zero." DSB. Keesom published the standard work on helium in 1942. DSB, VII, p. 272. See: Mehra, Beat of a different drum, pp. 351-352.…