Nernst

[ nairnst, nurnst; German nernst ]

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Wal·ther Her·man [vahl, -t, uh, r, , her, -mahn], 1864–1941, German physicist and chemist: Nobel Prize in chemistry 1920.

Nernst

/ nɛrnst /

NernstWalther Hermann18641941MGermanSCIENCE: chemist Walther Hermann (ˈvaltər ˈhɛrman). 1864–1941, German physical chemist who formulated the third law of thermodynamics: Nobel prize for chemistry 1920

Vide Nernst, Theoretical Chemistry, p. 245, for the detailed discussion of this relation.

The source of light—the filament of a Nernst lamp—was moved about in a plane 120 cm.

He has trained in his laboratory Arrhenius, Nernst, and many others of almost equal eminence.

If such a rod is heated by the oxy-hydrogen blowpipe to a high Nernst lamp.

The Nernst lamp, therefore (fig. 17), consists of a slender rod of the mixed oxides attached to platinum wires by an oxide paste.

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