A world on fire: a heretic, an aristocrat, and the race to discover oxygen
Traces the breakthrough discovery of oxygen at the end of the 1700s by a pair of rival scientists, describing how English dissenter Joseph Priestley and French aristocrat Antoine Lavoisier waged a fierce competition to solve the "riddle of air."
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New York u.a.
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2007
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| Summary: | Traces the breakthrough discovery of oxygen at the end of the 1700s by a pair of rival scientists, describing how English dissenter Joseph Priestley and French aristocrat Antoine Lavoisier waged a fierce competition to solve the "riddle of air." |
| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-395) and index |
| Physical Description: | 414 S., [4] Bl. Ill. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780143038832 |
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