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Volume 6, Issue 16-17, October 2013

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William Ramsay was born in Glasgow on October 2, 1852, the son of William Ramsay, C.E. and Catherine, née Robertson. He was a nephew of the geologist, Sir Andrew Ramsay. He was the Scottish scientist who discovered the noble gases. These gases are argon, neon, krypton and xenon. These gases along with helium and radon formed a new set of elements. For this discovery, Ramsay was awarded the Noble Prize in 1904. Ramsay has made many contributions to the field of chemistry. His contributions touch the fields of organic chemistry and physical chemistry including stoichiometry, thermodynamics, molecular weights, density, surface tension and the critical states of liquids & vapours. Ramsay liberated another inert gas from a mineral called cleveite; this proved to be helium, previously known only in the solar spectrum. In his book The Gases of the Atmosphere (1896), Ramsay showed that the positions of helium and argon in the periodic table of elements indicated that at least three more noble gases might exist. Working with the British chemist Frederick Soddy in 1903, Ramsay demonstrated that helium (together with a gaseous emanation called radon) is continually produced during the radioactive decay of radium, a discovery of crucial importance to the modern understanding of nuclear reactions. In 1910, using tiny samples of radon, Ramsay proved that it was a sixth noble gas, and he provided further evidence that it was formed by the emission of a helium nucleus from radium.


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DISCOVERY OF THE MONTH

Discovery of neon gas by William Ramsay – October 2, 1852

Brindha V

William Ramsay was born in Glasgow on October 2, 1852, the son of William Ramsay, C.E. and Catherine, née Robertson. He was a nephew of the geologist, Sir Andrew Ramsay. He was the Scottish scientist who discovered the noble gases. These gases are argon, neon, krypton and xenon.

Discovery, 2013, 6(16), 6

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ANALYSIS

Representations of Homotopy group through infinite symmetric product functor

Pravanjan Kumar Rana

In this paper we construct symmetric product covariant functor and we study the new representations of higher order Homotopy group through infinite symmetric product covariant functor(SP) and higher order Homotopy functor(n, where n0).

Discovery, 2013, 6(16), 7-9

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Improve(ing) Teaching by the Knowledge of Discourse in English Schools

Mitra Farsi, Sima Tondar, Vahid Asadideziri

Most language learners have spent a long period oftime in English classes for learning, but just few learners obtained their aims. Among the most remarkable schools, functionalists have claimed that all simple words, phrases, sentences and conversations have been reacted to context.

Discovery, 2013, 6(16), 10-12

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COMMUNICATION

Distributed shared memory - an overview

Shahbaz Ali Khan, Harish R, Shokat Ali, Rajat, Vaibhav Jain, Nitish Raj

The intention of this paper is to provide an overview on the subject of Distributed shared memory. Distributed shared memory (DSM) systems represent a successful hybrid of two parallel computer classes: shared memory multiprocessors and distributed computer systems. They provide the shared memory abstraction in systems with physicallydistributed memories, and consequently combine the advantages of both approaches.

Discovery, 2013, 6(17), 16-20

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