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A Convenient Method of Distillation of the Alkali Metals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

R. J. Clark
R. J. Clark
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Lecturer in Physics and Carnegie Teaching Fellow in the University of Edinburgh
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The alkali metals, sodium, potassium and rubidium can be distilled easily in a good vacuum and obtained reasonably free from occluded gas in the following way. As potassium is now used for the absorption of mercury vapour and many experiments are being done on the others, an account of a convenient way of preparing pure specimens may be of some service to experimenters.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 23 , Issue 8 , October 1927 , pp. 953 - 955
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1927