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MOISSAN, Henry. FIVE ISSUES OF COMPTES RENDUS AND ONE OFFPRINT ON FLUORINE: 1) LE FUOR. 2) SUR LE TRIFLUORURE DE PHOSPHORE. 3) ACTION D'UN COURNAT ÉLECTRIQUE (ELECTRIQUE) SUR L'ACIDE FLUORHYDRIQUE ANHYDRE. 4) SUR LA DÉCOMPOSITION (DECOMPOSITION) DE L'ACIDE FLUORHYDRIQUE PAR UN COURANT ÉLECTRIQUE (ELECTRIQUE). 5) NOUVELLES EXPÉRIENCES (EXPERIENCES) SUR LA DÉCOMPOSITION DE L'ACIDE FLUORHYDRIQUE PAR UN COURNAT ÉLECTRIQUE. 6) SUR LA COULEUR ET SUR SPECTRE DU FLUOR.
1884. Hardcover Near Fine
Offered are Five Near Fine entire issues of Comptes Rendus and One offprint dated 1884-1897, bound together in yellow buckram with gilt lettering spine. Mild scattered foxing. 4to. Published in: 1) Royal Institution of Great Britain, Weekly Evening Meeting, Friday, May 28, 1897. 2) Comptes Rendus, 1884, 2 Semestre T. XCIX, No. 16, pp. 655-657. 3) Comptes Rendus, 1886, 1er Semestre T. CII, No. 26, pp. 1543-1544. 4) Comptes Rendus, 1886, 2 Semestre T. CIII, No. 3, pp. 202-207. 5) Comptes Rendus, 1889, 2 Semestre T. CIX, No. 25, pp. 256-258. 6) Comptes Rendus, 1889, 2 Semestre T. CIX, No. 26, pp. 937-940.
In 1884 Moissan began his remarkable research on the compounds of fluorine, which was to lead him to the isolation of this element. Previous attempts by others to obtain fluorine had not been successful because of the toxicity of fluorine compounds and the difficulty in designing suitable apparatus. Efforts by Davy, Gay-Lussac, and Thenard had not only been fruitless but injurious to their health. George J. and Thomas Know of Ireland were seriously affected; and for the Belgian chemist Paulin Louyet and the French chemist Jerome Nicles these investigations proved fatal. Fremy was equally unsuccessful in preparing fluorine, as was George Gore of England. Although including the electrolytic decomposition of phosphorus trifluoride and arsenic trifluoride, had also failed and proved injurious to his health, he persisted and on 26 June 1886 finally succeeded. This difficult feat was accomplished by using an electrolyte of dry potassium acid fluoride dissolved in anhydrous hydrofluoric acid. For the reaction Moisson employed a platinum U-tube containing two platinum-iridium electrodes, closed by fluorite caps and cooled by methyl chloride. At the anode an electric current yielded a gas which by its strong reaction with silicon was shown to be fluorine. Moissan's continuing investigation of the chemistry of fluorine subsequently resulted in the discovery of a number of fluorides such as carbon tetrafluoride, ethyl fluoride, methyl and isobutyl flurides (with M. Meslans), and sulfuryl fluoride (with P. Lebeau). In collaboration with James Dwar he both liquefied (1897, 1903) and solidified fluorine (1903). ((DSB, Vol. 9, p. 451)
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225.00 USD
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