By Hugh Aldersey-Williams
ISBN-10: 0061824739
ISBN-13: 9780061824739
just like the alphabet, the calendar, or the zodiac, the periodic desk of the chemical parts has an everlasting position in our mind's eye. yet apart from the handful of universal ones (iron, carbon, copper, gold), the weather themselves stay wrapped in secret. we don't be aware of what such a lot of them appear like, how they exist in nature, how they received their names, or of what use they're to us. Unlocking their stunning secrets and techniques and colourful pasts, Periodic Tales is a passionate trip via mines and artists’ studios, to factories and cathedrals, into the woods and to the ocean to find the genuine tales of those interesting yet mysterious development blocks of the universe.
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1874-1963). From a photograph supplied by the National Bureau of Standards. conditions in soil were of considerable interest to an early plant physiologist, Burton E. Livingston (1875-1948), who with L. A. " Earlier, in 1905, Livingston, J. C. Britton, and F. R. Reid had studied and reported on properties of unproductive soils. S. Bureau of Soils in the years 1905 and 1906. The continuing influence of the Bureau of Soils on soil physics into the 20th century is evident in the work of Lyman J. Briggs (1874-1963, Figure 9), who joined the Department of Agriculture as a physicist under Whitney in 1896.
A Taylor, 1965). It is of interest to note that, as has been true of numerous early as well as some more modem scientists who have come to be known as soil physicists, Gardner's educational background is not soils, soil water having become an acquired interest. At the University of California he was friendly with O. W. Israelsen, who was studying agricultural engineering on leave from Utah Agricultural Early Soil Physics into the Mid-20th Century 39 College. This friendship undoubtedly had some influence on his interest in soils and his later appointment to the faculty of Utah Agricultural College as physicist in the Experiment Station, where he had earlier served as a clerk.
They refer also to Briggs' and Buckingham's papers. In a subsequent paper they deal with permeability of an ideal soil to air and water CW. H. Green and Ampt, 1912). E. W. Washburn, in 1921, wrote equations for the advance of water into porous ceramic materials which included such factors as viscosity of the displaced air, the angle of contact, and the coefficient of slip between water and solid. When these functions are neglected the equations agree with those of Green an Ampt. Philip (1954a, 1957), Childs (1967), W.
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