| Description |
ix, 407 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
BSHS monographs ; no. 13
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BSHS monographs ; 13.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Hasok Chang and Catherine Jackson -- Part A: Chlorine and the Hisotry of Matter -- 1. The Discovery of Chlorine: A Window on the Chemical Revolution / Ruth Ashbee -- 2. The Elementary Nature of Chlorine / Tamsin Gray, Rosemary Coats and Marten Akesson -- 3. Chlorine and Prout's hypothesis / Jonathan Nendick, Dominic Scrancher and Olivier Usher -- 4. Looking into the Core of the Sun / Christian Guy, Emma Goddard, Emily Milner, Lisa Murch and Andrew B. Clegg -- Part B: Life, Death and Destruction by Chlorine -- 5. Obstacles in the Establishment of Chlorine Bleaching / Manchi Chung, Saber Farooqi, Jacob Soper and Olympia Brown -- 6. Chlorine Disinfection and Theories of Disease / Anna Lewcock, Fiona Scott-Kerr and Elinor Mathieson -- 7. Chlorine as the First Major Chemical Weapon / Frederick Cowell, Xuan Goh, James Cambrook and David Bulley -- 8. Ethics, Public Relations, and the Origins of the Geneva Protocol / Abbi Hobbs, Catherine Jefferson, Nicholas Coppeard and Chris Pitt -- 9. The Rise and Fall of "Chlorine Chambers" Against Cold and Flu / David Nader and Spasoje Marcinko -- 10. War and the Scientific Community / Sam Raphael, George Kalpadakis and Daisy O'Reilly-Weinstock -- 11. The Noisy Reception of Silent Spring / Kim Groshong -- Epilogue: Turning an Undergraduate Class into a Professional Research Community / Hasok Chang |
| Subject |
Chlorine -- History.
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Chlorine. |
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History. |
| Added Author |
Chang, Hasok.
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Jackson, Catherine, 1964-
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| ISBN |
9780906450017 |
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0906450012 |
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