12. According to Travers, op. cit. (note 5), these flasks were obtained from
Berlin.
13. There is a distinction to be made between reaction ‘order’ and reaction
‘molecularity’ which may not have been developed at the time? A ‘quinquemolecular’ reaction tends to suggest reaction order, i.e., the number of atoms
or molecules whose concentrations determine the kinetics of the process.
Molecularity refers to the number of atoms or molecules taking part in each
act leading to chemical reaction—and especially the Rate Determining
Step. Today, ‘five’ would be regarded as ‘suspicious’.
14. F. T. Trouton F.R.S. was Quain Professor of Physics at UCL during Robert’s
time there. He is best remembered for ‘Trouton’s Rule’, a relationship
between boiling points (K) and the molar ‘latent heats’ of vapourisation (at
atmospheric pressure).
15. Today, the value is accepted as 54 s, closer indeed than Rutherford’s value.
16. Robert’s success on achieving the departmental gold medal (Chap. 1) was
reported in The Victorian, the annual publication of Robert’s school, Victoria
College, in March 1906.
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Berlin.
13. There is a distinction to be made between reaction ‘order’ and reaction
‘molecularity’ which may not have been developed at the time? A ‘quinquemolecular’ reaction tends to suggest reaction order, i.e., the number of atoms
or molecules whose concentrations determine the kinetics of the process.
Molecularity refers to the number of atoms or molecules taking part in each
act leading to chemical reaction—and especially the Rate Determining
Step. Today, ‘five’ would be regarded as ‘suspicious’.
14. F. T. Trouton F.R.S. was Quain Professor of Physics at UCL during Robert’s
time there. He is best remembered for ‘Trouton’s Rule’, a relationship
between boiling points (K) and the molar ‘latent heats’ of vapourisation (at
atmospheric pressure).
15. Today, the value is accepted as 54 s, closer indeed than Rutherford’s value.
16. Robert’s success on achieving the departmental gold medal (Chap. 1) was
reported in The Victorian, the annual publication of Robert’s school, Victoria
College, in March 1906.
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