Two Papers on High-Pressure Ice

by Percy Williams Bridgman

$3,500 · Offered by Biblioctopus

First edition

1912 and 1914. First Edition. Bridgman received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1946 for his invention of an apparatus capable of generating sustained hydrostatic pressures far exceeding those previously attainable, and for the discoveries he made with it. The two papers offered here together constitute the primary and secondary publication of the most celebrated of those discoveries: the existence of five distinct polymorphic forms of ice, each stable within a

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