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Edward A. Mason
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BIOGRAPHY

Professor of Chemistry and Engineering, 1967–92; Newport Rogers Professor of Chemistry, 1983–92, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Coauthor of Transport Properties of Ions in Gases and others.

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A diagram showing a bottle with a balloon over its opening, first at room temperature and then heated. As the bottle is heated, the air inside expands, inflating the balloon to demonstrate the principle of thermal expansion.
Gas, one of the three fundamental states of matter, with distinctly different properties from the liquid and solid states. The remarkable feature of gases is that they appear to have no structure at all. They have neither a definite size nor shape, whereas ordinary solids have both a definite size…
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