INDEX 



Latimer, 400 



lattices, 67 



lattice constant, 325 



Laue, 67 



laws of cause and effect, 4 



laws of chance, 5 



laws of elastic collision, 312 



law of excluded middle, 7 



laws of heat convection, 147 



laws of heat conduction, 162 



law of ideal gases, 32 



"law of mass action", 64, 113 



laws of the" kinetic theory of gases, 33 



law of survival of the fittest, 10 



law of uniformity of nature, 7 



lead and silver salts, 244 



lead cooling correction, 337 



lend-lease, 28 



Leningrad, 27, 29 



Leningrad and Moscow, 17 



Lewis, G. N., 114, 241, 260, 388, 391, 

 399 



Lewis and Randall, 114, 122 



Lewis & Randall's "Thermodynam- 

 ics", 135 



light intensity, 286, 362 



Lindemann, 309 



liquid, 39, 41, 42, 67, 267, 397 



liquid air, 63, 64, 289, 290, 291, 292, 

 295, 297, 301, 337, 385 



liquid hydrocarbon, 233, 267, 271, 275, 

 280 



liquids in bulk, 273 



liquid or solid hydrogen, 297 



liquid phase, 76, 87 



liquid phase to the vapor, 79 



logic, 7 



London, 220 



long range forces, 56 



loss by convection^ 106 



Low Carbon Steel, 145 



Lyman, 130 



Lysenko, T. D., XI 



M, 59, 118 



Mackay G. M. J., 114, 124, 146, 293 



Mackay, G. M. J. J. Franklin Inst., 



117 

 Mackay, Jour. Amer. Chem. Soc, 128, 



160, 205 

 Mackenzie King, 24 

 Maginot Line, 21 

 Magnanini, 146 

 magnesium, 35, 144 

 magnesium carbonate, 247, 248, 250 

 magnesium ions, 246, 248 

 magnesium oxide, 121, 142, 143, 246 

 magnesium salts, 253 

 Magnetic susceptibility, 242 

 Magnuson Bill, 23 

 Magnuson and Kilgore Bills, 22 

 manganese, 121, 123, 144 

 manganese atoms, 256 

 manganese ion, 255 

 Manhattan Project, 13 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 



VIII 

 mathematical equation, 3 

 Maxwell, 2, 163, 258, 305, 314 

 Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution (M. 



B.D.), 371 

 Maxwell's distribution, 165, 316 

 Mayer, 61 



McGraw-Hill, 114, 129 

 McLeod gauge, 33 

 mean energy of molecules, 307 

 mean free path, 163, 170 

 mean free path of electrons, 287 

 mean free path of the gas molecules, 



166 

 mean free path of the molecules, 33, 



301 

 mean kinetic energy, 306, 310 

 mean specific heat of hydrogen, 194 

 megabar, 208 



mean thermal velocity, 314 

 melting, 68 



mercury, 49, 69, 70, 112, 297, 317 

 mercury atoms, 295, 297 

 mercury vapor, 149, 232 

 mercury vapor and nitrogen, 106 

 metal atoms, 297 

 metallic caesium, 54, 375 



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