Lord Rayleigh

Nobel Lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1904

The Density of Gases in the Air and the Discovery of Argon

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From Nobel Lectures, Physics 1901-1921, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1967

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