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FREDERICK GEORGE KEYES
Pages 276-287

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... in the design en c! operation of steam generating power plants worIc~wicle.
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... In 1917 this research was interrupted by the entry of the United States into World War I Keyes joined what was later to be known as the Chemical Warfare Service.
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... instrumentation for such research, inclucling the famous Collins helium cryostat. In an extensive series of studies Keyes en c!
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... During World War II Keyes investigated the thermodynamic properties of hydrogen peroxide as a source of oxygen for submarines, en c! the scientific aspects of that work were publisher!
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... polymers, George ScatcharcI, pioneer in electrolyte chemistry en c! biophysical chemistry, I
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... Above the fireplace was an inscription from the works of Virgil: "Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causes" ("Happy he who knows the causes of things"~. Many years later this inscription was to become the motto of Churchill College at Cambridge.
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... the Frederick George Keyes Professorship of Chemistry en c! the announcement was macle by lames R
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... The vapor pressure of liquid ammonia up to the critical temperature.
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... Arts Sci.
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... 70:2578-83. 1949 The consistency of the thermodynamic data for water substance vapor phase to 550°C.


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