Mendelejeff [Mendeleev] (Dmitri) "On the Expansion of Liquids", first

Mendelejeff [Mendeleev] (Dmitri) "On the Expansion of Liquids", first English edition, translated by B. Brauner in Journal of the Chemical Society, vol. 45, pp.126-135, ex-library copy with ink-stamps and bookplates, library half cloth, paper label to spine, spine sunned, light rubbing, 1884; and 3 other volumes of the same periodical, 8vo (4) *** An early appearance of Mendeleev's work in English. In volumes 51 and 55, we see other works by Mendeleev, with his name spelt as "Mendeléef", for his papers "The Compounds of Ethyl Alcohol with Water" and "The Periodic Law of the Chemical Elements".

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