‎Chimie‎

‎"DAVY, HUMPHRY - THE DISCOVERY OF HYDROGEN TELLURIDE - THE RIVALRY WITH GAY-LUSSAC & THENARD.‎

‎Nouvelles Recherches électro-chimiques, principalement relatives aux substances métalliques tirées des alcalis et de terres, et à quelques combinations de l'Hydrogène. (+) Suite des Recherches... (+) Sur les Observations sur les Recherches faites p...‎

‎Paris, J. Klostermann, 1810. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt. Slightly rubbed. A few scratches to binding. Small stamps on verso of titlepage.In: ""Annales de Chimie, ou Recueil de Mémoires concernant la Chemie"" Tome 75. 336 pp. a. 2 folded engraved plates. Some scattered brownspots. The papers: pp. 27-77, 129-175, 256-263, 264-273, 274-289 a. 290-316.‎

‎"DAVY, HUMPHRY - THE DISCOVERY OF HYDROGEN TELLURIDE.‎

‎The Bakerian Lecture for 1809. On some new Electrochemical Researches, on various Objects, particularly the metallic Bodies, from the Alkalies, and Earth, and on some Combinations of Hydrogene. Read November 16, 1809.‎

‎(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1810). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1810 - Part I. Pp. 16-74 and 2 engraved plates showing Davy's electrochemical apparatus for decomposing substances, Davy's versions of the Voltaic-pile.. Plates a bit brownspotted, otherwise clean and fine, wide-margined.‎

‎"DAVY, HUMPHRY.‎

‎Further Experiments and Observations on Iodine. Read June 16, 1814.‎

‎(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1814). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1814 - Part II. Pp. 487-507.‎

‎"DAVY, HUMPHRY.‎

‎On some Combinations pf Phosphorus and Sulphur, and on some other Subjects of Chemical Inquiry.‎

‎(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1812). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1812 - Part II. Pp. 405-415.‎

‎"DAVY, HUMPHRY.‎

‎The Bakerian Lecture, on some chemical Agencies of Electricity. Read November 20, 1806. - [FOUNDATION OF ELECTRO-CHEMISTRY - OFF-PRINT, PRESENTATION-COPY]‎

‎London, Philosophical Transactions, 1807. 4to. Bound to style in recent plain blue wrappers. Offprint, with the separate printed title-page, from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1807 - Part I. With author's presentation to title-page: ""From the Author"". Occassional brownspotting throughout and a small tear, not affecting text, to lower margin of B4. (2), 56 pp. + 1 plate.‎

‎"DAVY, HUMPHRY. - CARBON AND DIAMOND ARE CHEMICALLY IDENTICAL.‎

‎Some Experiments on the Combustion of the Diamond and other carbonaceous Substances. Read June 23, 1814.‎

‎(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1814). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1814 - Part II. Pp. 557-570.‎

‎"DAVY, HUMPHRY. - INTRODUCING SCIENTIFIC FARMING.‎

‎Elements of Agricultural Chemistry, in the Course of Lectures for the Board of Agriculture.‎

‎London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1813. 4to. Contemp. full mottled calf, richly gilt spine. Engraved frontispiece. VIII,323,LXIII,(5) pp. and 9 engraved plates (1 folding). Faint offsetting from plates. A few brownspots. Upper ineer corner of the last 2 leaves with a bit of browning. Wide-margined, a fine copy.‎

‎"DAVY, HUMPHRY. - THE DISCOVERY OF THE ANAESTETHIC EFFECTS OF ""LAUGHING GAS""‎

‎Athembarkeit des sauerstoffhaltigen Stickgas" " aus einem Briefe H.Davy's an Will. Nicholson. (+) Nachricht von einigen merkwürdigen Versuchen Davy's. (Aus einem Briefe Humphry Davy's an Will. Nicholson).‎

‎Halle, Rengerschen Buchhandlung, 1799, 1800. Without wrappers extracted from ""Annalen der Physik. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert"", Bd. 2. p. 483 (one page). and Bd. 6, pp. 105-115. Some scattered brownspots.‎

‎"DAVY, JOHN.‎

‎An Account of some Experiments on the Combinations of different Metals and Chlorine, &c. Communicated by Humphry Davy. Read Februar 27, 1812.‎

‎(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1812). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1812 - Part II. Pp. 169-204.‎

‎"DEVILLE, HENRI SAINTE-CLAIRE. - TECHNOLOGY OF ALUMINUM PRODUCTION.‎

‎Note sur deux procédés de préparation de l'Aluminium et sur une nouvelle forme de silicium.‎

‎(Paris, Mallet-Bachelier), 1854. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendu hebdomadaires des Séances de l’Académie des Sciences"", Vol. 39, No. 7. Pp. (301-) 344. (Entire issue offered). Deville's paper: pp. 321-326.‎

‎First printing of a milestone paper in chemical technology, describing the methods by which it became possible to produce aluminium in larger industrial scale. In the paper Deville describes how to create the first crystalline silicon and he perfects the electrolytic process for obtaining metallic aluminium from sodium aluminium chloride.""Deville’s methods made both metals readily available and drastically reduced their cost, but he himself did not take much part in their later industrial development. He used the sodium obtained by his method for the preparation of such elements as silicon, boron, and titanium. His investigations of the metallurgy of platinum led to honors from the Russian government"" (DSB)..In Sparrow's ""Milestones of Science"" is listed Deville's larger work from 1859 ""De l'aluminium. Ses propriétés, sa fabrication et sed application..."", No. 173. - Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"" 1854 C.‎

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‎"DESORMES et CLEMENT. - CATALYSIS EXPLAINED.‎

‎Théorie de la fabrication de l'Acide Sulfurique.‎

‎Paris, Bernard, 1806. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Wear to top of spine. Spine slightly rubbed. In: ""Annales de Chimie"", tome 59. 342 pp. and 1 engraved plate. (Entire volume offered). Desormes & Clement's paper: pp. 329-339.‎

‎First edition of the paper which for the first time explained catalysis - the intermediate compound theory. According to this theory, the desired reaction is brought about by a path involving the formation of an unstable intermediate compound, followed by its decomposition into the desired end products with the regeneration of the catalyst.Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"", 1806 C.‎

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‎"DESORMES et CLEMENT. - CATALYSIS EXPLAINED.‎

‎Théorie de la fabrication de l'Acide Sulfurique.‎

‎Paris, Bernard, 1806. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Wear to top of spine. Spine slightly rubbed. In: ""Annales de Chimie"", tome 59. 342 pp. and 1 engraved plate. (Entire volume offered). Desormes & Clement's paper: pp. 329-339.‎

‎"DEVILLE, HENRI SAINTE-CLAIRE. - TECHNOLOGY OF ALUMINUM PRODUCTION.‎

‎Note sur deux procédés de préparation de l'Aluminium et sur une nouvelle forme de silicium.‎

‎(Paris, Mallet-Bachelier), 1854. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendu hebdomadaires des Séances de l’Académie des Sciences"", Vol. 39, No. 7. Pp. (301-) 344. (Entire issue offered). Deville's paper: pp. 321-326.‎

‎"DONNÉ, AL. (ALFRED). - THE DISCOVERY OF BLOOD-PLATELETS.‎

‎De l'origine des globules du Sang, de leur mode de formation et de leur fin.‎

‎(Paris, Bachelier), 1842. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 14, No. 10. Pp. (349-) 378. (Entire issue offered). Donné's paper: pp. 366-368.‎

‎"DRAPER, (JOHN) WILLIAM. - THE FIRST DAGUERREOTYPE PORTRAIT.‎

‎On the Process of Daguerreotype, and its application to taking Portraits from the Life.‎

‎London, Richard and John Taylor, 1840. Contemp. hcalf. A nic to spine at upper hinge. Hinges weakening (not loose). Gilt lettering to spine ""Philosophical Magazine"" - Vol.XVII. In: ""The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science. Conducted by David Brewster et al."". Vol. XVII. A stamp to titlepage and a few other pages. Entire volume offered. VIII,552 pp. Draper'spaper: pp. 217-225.‎

‎First printing of the famous paper in which Draper relates how he was able to made the first photographic portrait on a daguerreotype plate, giving an ennormously long exposure. The subject of the portrait, Draper's assistant, powdered his face with flour and sat in front of the camera for a half hour facing the sunlight.Draper stated that it is possible to make portraits in full sunlight, using mirrors as light reflectors. ""But in the reflected sunshine, the eye cannot support the effulgence of the rays. It is therefore necessary to pass them through some blue medium, which shall abstract from them their heat and take away their offensive brilliancy. Ihave used for this purpose blue glass, and also ammoniaco-sulphate of copper, contained in a large trough of plate glass, the interstice being about an inch thick."" (p. 217 in the paper offerd).""Draper first achieved wide celebrity for his pioneering work in photography. As early as 1837, while still in Virginia, he had followed the example of Wedgwood and Davy in making temporary copies of objects by the action of light on sensitized surfaces. When the details of Daguerre’s process for fixing camera images were published in various New York newspapers on 20 September 1839, Draper was ready for the greatest remaining challenge, to take a photographic portrait. A New York mechanic, Alexander S. Wolcott, apparently won the race by 7 October. But if Draper knew of this, he persisted in his own experiments and succeeded in taking a portrait not later than December 1839. His communication to the Philosophical Magazine, dated 31 March 1840, was the first report received in Europe of any photographer’s success in portraiture. The superb likeness of his sister Dorothy Catharine, taken not later than July 1840, with an exposure of sixty-five seconds, seems to be the oldest surviving photographic portrait.""(DSB).The volume contains also Michael Faraday's importent letter to Gay-Lussac on induction in the first English version. ""On Magneto-electric induction."", pp. 281-89 a. pp.356-366. (Originally published in French in ""Annales de Chimie et Physique"" in 1832.‎

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‎"DRAPER, JOHN W. - THE ""TITHONIC RAYS"" AS THE FOURTH IMPONDERABLE AGENT.‎

‎On the Decomposition of Carbonic Acid Gas and the Alkaline Carbonates, by the Light of the Sun" " and on the Tithonotype.‎

‎(London, 1843). No wrappers In: ""The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science"", Third Series, September issue 1843. Pp. 161-240 (entire issue offered). Draperspaper: pp. 161-176.‎

‎"DUTROCHET, RENÉ JOACHIM HENRI. - A CLASSIC WORK ON OSMOSIS.‎

‎De l'Endosmose des Acides.‎

‎(Paris, Crochard, 1835). No wrappers. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", 2e Series, tome 60, Cahier 4. Pp. 337-448 (entire issue offered). With htitle to vol. 60. Dutrochet's paper: pp. 337-368.‎

‎First appearance of one of the classic papers in which Dutrochet investigated his discovery of OSMOSIS. ""Dutrochet’s research on the phenomena of osmosis and diffusion (or endosmosis and exosmosis, as he not very aptly called them) and their applications to the study of previously unexplained vital phenomena attracted general attention. His chief observation was that certain organic membranes allow the passage of water but stop the molecules dissolved in it, so that between two solutions of different concentration, separated by such a membrane, water passes from the less concentrated to the more concentrated, even against gravity. Although the conditions of Dutrochet’s experiments were rather simple and did not allow of great accuracy, he made the first important steps toward the study of osmosis and diffusion.""(DSB).Garrison & Morton: 670.‎

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‎"DUTOUR, (ETIENNE FRANCOIS).‎

‎Exposition d'une Theorie sur le renouvellement de l'Air dans l'Eau, & sur la desunion des parties des matières solubles opérée par les dissolvans.‎

‎(Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1755). 4to. Extract from ""Mémoires fe Mathematique et de Physique, Présentés à l'Academie des Sciences par divers Savans"", Tome II. Pp. 477-500. 2 textillustrations.‎

‎In this paper Dutour describes the apparatus by which he shows that water freed from 'air' does not act on iron.‎

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‎"DUMAS, J. (JEAN BAPTISTE ANDRÉ). - FORESHADOWING THE PERIODIC TABLE.‎

‎Mémoire sur les Équivalents des Corps simples. Lu à l'Academie des Sciences le 9 novembre 1857 et le 27 decembre 1858.‎

‎Paris, Victor Masson, 1859. No wrappers as extracted from ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", Tome 55, Troisieme Série. Titlepage to tome 55, pp. 129-210 a. 1 folded engraved plate. Clean and fine.‎

‎First printing of Dumas's importent lecture on the chemical equivalents of the elements in which he attempts to prove that all elements is multiples of the hydrogen atom, Prout's thesis.""He also published two papers (the present) in which he tried to develop the view that for the classifications of the elements it was possible to discover 'generating' relations similar to thosee defining the series of organic compounds. The elements could be divided into 'natural families'. The atomic weights of all the members of the same family were linked by a simple arithmetic relationship"" they increased by multiples of sixteen.""(DSB IV, p.247). - Neville p. 397.‎

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‎"DUFAY (DU FAY), CHARLES FRANCOIS DE CISTERNAY. - PHOSPHORESCENCE.‎

‎Mémoire sur un grand Nombre de Phosphores nouveaux.‎

‎(Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1732). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from ""Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1730"". Pp. 524-535.‎

‎First appearance of Dufay's importent work on phosphorescence.""Chemists had long been acquainted with a fes minerals like the Bologna stone (BaS) and Balduin's hermetic phosphor (plain CaS) that glowed after exposure to light. Greatmystery surrunded those expensive and supposedly rare substances. Dufay detested mysteries and held as a guiding principle that a given physical property, however bizarre, must be assumed characteristic of a large class of bodies, not of isolated species. He found that almost everything except metals and very hard gems could be made phosphorescent: he depressed the phosphor market by describing his procedure: and he became sensitive to the endless small variations in the physical properties of bodies. 'How many things behave that seemed similar, and how many varieties there are in effects that seemed identical."" (Heilbron ""Electricity in the 17 & 18 Centuries"", p. 251).Another paper attached to Dufay's paper is Charles Pitot ""Reflexions sur le Mouvement des Eaux"". Pp. 536-544 a. 1 folded engraved plate. (Poggendorff II:p. 459).Partington ""A History of Chemistry"" III, p.66‎

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‎"DUMAS, (JEAN BAPTISTE-ANDRE) & (JUSTUS ) LIEBIG. - A NEW CLASSIFICATION IN ORGANIC CHEMISTRY.‎

‎Note sur l'état actuel de la Chemie organique.‎

‎(Paris, Bachelier), 1837. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome V , No 17. (Entire issue offered). Pp. (567-) 572. Dumas & Liebig's paper: pp. (567-) 572.‎

‎First appearance of a historical paper in chemistry. stating a new way to organize organic chemistry.When Liebig visited Paris in 1837, he persuaded Dumas to accept the ethyl theory, and in a joint memoir (written by Liebig) presented on 23 October 1837 to the Paris Academy (the paper offered) they asserted that ""in inorganic chemistry the radicals are simple"" in organic chemistry they are compounds - that is the sole difference. The laws of combination, the laws of reaction, are the same in the two branches of chemistry"" (Partington, vol. IV, p. 351).""In the paper ""Note on the present state of organic chemistry"" .... (Dumas and Liebig)) claim to have found the key to systematically organizing organic chemistry, basing research not on the elements, as in inorganic chemistry, but on the radicals. The radicals in organic chemistry act analogous to the elements in mineral chemistry, with the same general principles of combination and reaction.""(Partington ""Breakthroughs"" 1837 C).‎

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‎"DUMAS, JEAN BAPTISTE ANDRÈ - ANNOUNCING THE LAW OF SUBSTITUTION.‎

‎Recherches de Chimie organique. Lu à l'Academie des Sciences le 13 janvier 1834.‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1834. No wrappers, as extracted from: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", tome 56, pp.1-150. With titlepage to vol. 56. Titlepage with some browning to corners and some brownspots. Text with scattered brownnspots.‎

‎First printing of this milestone paper in organic chemistry which marks a very importent step toward a complete structural theory of organic chemistry, THE SUBSTITUTION THEORY.""In 1834 Dumas presented a long paper, ""Recherches de Chimie organique"", to the Academy of Sciences in Paris. In this he described chloroform and chloral and explained the mechanism by which chlorine acted upon ethyl alcohol. The paper was published soon afterwards (as offered here) and several years later was reprinted with the addition in the theoretical part of Dumas's theory of metalepsy.""(Leicester & Klickstein ""A Source Book in Chemistry"", p. 320 ff.). - Parkinson ""Breakthrough"" 1834 C. - Partington IV, pp. 360 ff.‎

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‎"DUMAS, JEAN BAPTISTE-ANDRE & J.S. STAS. - THE ATOMIC WEIGHT OF CARBON ESTABLISHED.‎

‎Recherches sur la véritable poids atomiques du carbone. (Lu à l'Academie des Sciences, le 21 décembre 1840).‎

‎Paris, Fortin, Masson et Cie, 1841. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine. Light wear along edges. Small stamps on verso of titlepage. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 3e Series - Tome 1. 512 pp. a. 3 folded engraved plates (showing experimental apparatus).Small stamp to verso of plates. (The entire volume offered). Dumas & Stas' paper: pp. 1-59. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance in full of this paper, stating the correct weight of the carbon atom, which had profound influence on the development of organic chemistry. The first announcement (in extrait) came out in Comptes rendus, Tome Xi, 1840.""From 1840 onward he carried out an important revision of the atomic weights of thirty elements. His most valuable contribution in this field was his very precise determination of the atomic weight of carbon (jointly with his pupil Stas) in 1840.2 A previously accepted weight, determined by Berzelius as C = 12.20 (O = 16), was shown to be incorrect. Dumas proved that C = 12±.002 (O = 16) or C = 75 (O = 100). The analysis was made by burning diamond and artificial and natural graphite in oxygen"" the carbon dioxide formed was weighed in potash solution. The results were in close agreement. The ""new"" weight of carbon had a great effect on the progress of organic chemistry.""(DSB).The volume contains further notable papers by Gerhardt et Cahours ""Recherches chimiques sur les huiles essentitielles"", pp. 60-110, by Laurent, Boussingault, Regnault, Dulong, Melloni et al.‎

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‎"DULONG, (PIERRE) & (ALEXIS) PETIT. - THE ""LAW OF DULONG AND PETIT"" THE CONNECTION BETWEEN ATOMIC WEIGHT AND ATOMIC HEAT ESTABLISHED.‎

‎Recherches Sur la Mesure des Températures et sur les Lois de la communication de la chaleur. Introduction. (+) Suite des Recherches sur la Mesure des Témperatures..... Seconde Partie. Des Lois du Refroidissement. (+) Suite Des Recherches sur la Mesure...‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1817 a. 1819. Bound in one contemp hcloth (vol. 7) and 1 issue without wrappers. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", Vol. 7 and vol. 10, Cahier 4. - 448 pp. a. 2 engraved plates (entire vol. 7 offered) + pp. 337-443 a. 2 engraved plate (entire issue offered, Cahier 4 of vol. 10 with htitle to the vol.). Dulon & Petit's papers: pp. 113-154, pp. 225-264, pp. 337-367 and Vol. X, pp. 395-413.‎

‎First edition of these 4 groundbreaking papers with the first appearance in print of THE LAW OF THE CONSTANCY OF ATOMIC HEAT, i.e. the specific heat multiplied by the atomic weight. The insight had far reaching implications as it showed a new way to Dalton's atomic theory. ""In 1815 Dulong's famous collaboration with the mathematical physicist Alexis Therese Petit began"" it produced three importent memoirs on heat."" (the papers offered here). The 2 first was awarded the price of the Academy in 1818 and was leading up to the last paper in which they formulted the ""Law of the Constancy of product of atomic weight and specific heat""""They (Dulang and Petit) were concerned with the specific heats of elements"" but if these elements really existed as atoms, it seemed possible that there might be a connection between trhe weight of the atom and the amount of heat aquired to raise the temperature of a given weight of that element by a certain amount."" (DSB). ""One of his (Dulong) most importent researches was made in collaboration with Alexis Thérese Petit (1791-1820), with whom he announced the law that the product of atomic weight and specific heat is constant (1819). It rendered a distinct service in fixing atomic weights, especially when these were in question, and enabled Berzelius and later Cannizzaro to arrive at correct atomic weights and the correct number of atoms in molecules."" (Leicester & Klickstein, A source Book in Chemistry 1400-1900, p. 273). Parkinson, Breakthroughs (1819).‎

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‎"DUMAS, JEAN BAPTISTE-ANDRE & PIERRE PELLETIER.‎

‎Recherches sur la Composition élémentaire et sur quelques propriétes caractéristiques des bases salifiables organiques. - [TOWARDS A CLASSIFICATION OF ORGANIC COMPOUNDS.]‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1823. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with gilt lettering spine and five raised bands. The original wrappers withbound in the back. In ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", tome 24. Entire volume offered. Paper label pasted on to top of spine. Two stamps to verso of title-page and stamos to verso of all plates. A few light occassional brownspots, otherwise a fine copy. Pp. 163-191. [Entire volume: 448 pp. + 4 folded plates.‎

‎First appearance of Dumas and Pelletier's importent paper in which they analyzed nine alkaloids by combustion and found for the first time the number of atoms of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen in them. Dumas' name is still associated with the two procedures which he devised here, the determination of vapor density and combustion analysis. ""The most important problem with which Dumas was concerned throughout his career was the classification of chemical substances. He sought to devise comprehensive classificatory schemes for organic compounds and for the elements. Dumas’s earliest contribution to organic chemistry was his study of nine alkaloids, published in 1823, jointly with Pierre Pelletier.1 He analyzed the elemental constituents of these organic “bases” and attempted to prove that their relative proportions of oxygen followed Dalton’s law of multiple proportions. He had embraced the ideas of the two reigning theories in contemporary chemistry: dualism, with its division of substances into electronegative (acid) and electropositive (alkaline)"" and atomism, which Dalton had used to explain his law. Dumas spent the next few years attempting to create an adequate system of classification of organic compounds based upon these two theories.""(DSB). The Present volume also contain papers by Faraday, Becquerel and many other.‎

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