A brief account of the life of Matthew Carey Lea and his work on mechanochem. is presented. The importance of his mechanochem. expts. are examd. by exploring how his ideas developed from observing the pressure sensitivity of photog. plates to the systematic investigations on the mechanochem. decompn. of compds. 26 yr later. Carey Lea was known as a pioneer in photog. chem., and later his discoveries on allotropic silver were praised widely.
Publisher
Division of the History of Chemistry
ISSN
1053-4385
Type of Resource
text
Genre of Resource
article
Language
eng
Permalink
https://hdl.handle.net/2142/127560
DOI
https://doi.org/10.70359/bhc2003v028p026
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Copyright 2003 Division of the History of Chemistry
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