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100 1 _aBucher, John Emery,
_d1872-1943
245 1 3 _aAn examination of some methods employed in determining the atomic weight of Cadmium
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2023
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2023-09-04
508 _aRichard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"An Examination of Some Methods Employed in Determining the Atomic Weight of Cadmium" by John E. Bucher is a scientific thesis published in the late 19th century, specifically in 1894. This scholarly work presents a detailed examination of various methods used to ascertain the atomic weight of cadmium, demonstrating the discrepancies in results obtained by different chemists over time. The book serves not only as a report on experimental findings but also as a historical account of the scientific community's efforts to establish more accurate chemical constants. In this extensive thesis, Bucher explores multiple techniques for determining cadmium's atomic weight, such as the oxalate, sulphide, chloride, bromide, and oxide methods. He meticulously outlines the procedures for each method, the materials used, and the resulting atomic weight calculations. Additionally, Bucher discusses potential sources of error in each method, ultimately suggesting that significant variability arises from impure reactants and incomplete reactions. He presents a tentative average atomic weight of cadmium at approximately 112.38, while emphasizing that these results are not definitive, highlighting ongoing challenges in chemical analysis during that period. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cBaltimore, MD: John E. Bucher, 1894
653 _aThesis (Ph. D.)
653 _aCadmium
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71561
999 _c112287
_d112287