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Definition of Langmuir
1. Noun. United States chemist who studied surface chemistry and developed the gas-filled tungsten lamp and worked on high temperature electrical discharges (1881-1957).
Medical Definition of Langmuir
1. Irving, U.S. Chemist and Nobel laureate, 1881-1957. See: Langmuir trough. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Langmuir
Literary usage of Langmuir
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.), National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, National Conference of Social Work (U.S.) (1881)
"The PRESIDENT : I will call on Mr. JW Langmuir for a report from Ontario, ...
BY JW Langmuir, GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR. Having, at the last meeting of the ..."
2. Thermodynamics of Technical Gas-reactions: Seven Lectures by Fritz Haber (1908)
"1-77 It still remains to mention experiments of Langmuir carried out jn thc same
manner with water-vapour as with carbon dioxide (see P- 317). ..."
3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1900)
"BY AC Langmuir. Received November 24, 1899. EORGE WILLIAM SARGENT'S paper on
the " Determi- nation of Nickel in Nickel-Steel " in the October number of this ..."
4. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1913)
"By AIEE LAWS OF HEAT TRANSMISSION IN ELECTRICAL MACHINERY BY IRVING Langmuir Even
in a simple case of heat transmission, such as a laboratory measurement of ..."
5. Proceedings of the IRE. by Institute of Radio Engineers (1915)
"AND ITS APPLICATIONS IN RADIO TELEGRAPHY AND TELEPHONY BY IRVING Langmuir HISTORICAL
It has been known for nearly two hundred years that air in the ..."
6. A System of Physical Chemistry by William Cudmore McCullagh Lewis, James Rice (1921)
"... Nernst-s theory of heterogeneous reaction velocity — Heterogeneous catalysis—
Langmuir-s theory of surface action. KINETICS m HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS. ..."
7. Introduction to the Rarer Elements by Philip Embury Browning (1917)
"Vanadins, Die Literatur des (1804-1905); Prandtl. Hamburg, Leopold Voss, 1906.
Zirconium, Index to the Literature of (1789-1898); Langmuir and ..."
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