Open main menu
Home
Random
Recent changes
Special pages
Community portal
Preferences
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Incubator escapee wiki
Search
User menu
Talk
Dark mode
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Editing
Liquid oxygen
(section)
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
==History== *By 1845, [[Michael Faraday]] had managed to liquefy most gases then known to exist. Six gases, however, resisted every attempt at liquefaction<ref>[http://www.scienceclarified.com/Co-Di/Cryogenics.html Cryogenics]. Scienceclarified.com. Retrieved on 2012-07-22.</ref> and were known at the time as "[[permanent gas]]es". They were oxygen, [[hydrogen]], [[nitrogen]], [[carbon monoxide]], [[methane]], and [[nitric oxide]]. *In 1877, [[Louis Paul Cailletet]] in France and [[Raoul Pictet]] in Switzerland succeeded in producing the first droplets of liquid air.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Papanelopoulou |first1=Faidra |title=Louis Paul Cailletet, the Liquefaction of Oxygen and the Emergence of an `In-Between Discipline': Low-Temperature Research |date=2015 |publisher=Springer International Publishing |isbn=978-3-319-14553-2 |pages=9-22 |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14553-2_2}}</ref> *In 1883, Polish professors [[Zygmunt Wróblewski]] and [[Karol Olszewski]] produced the first measurable quantity of liquid oxygen.<ref>{{Citation | last =Kubbinga | first =Henk | year =2010 | title = A Tribute to Wróblewski and Olszewski | journal =Europhysics News | volume =41 | issue =4 | pages =21-24 | doi =10.1051/epn/2010402 | url =https://www.europhysicsnews.org/10.1051/epn/2010402/pdf | archive-url = | archive-date = }}</ref>
Edit summary
(Briefly describe your changes)
By publishing changes, you agree to the
Terms of Use
, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 License
and the
GFDL
. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license.
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)