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).

Exact synonyms: Irving Langmuir
Generic synonyms: Chemist

Medical Definition of Langmuir

1. Irving, U.S. Chemist and Nobel laureate, 1881-1957. See: Langmuir trough. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Langmuir

Langer's muscle
Langerhans
Langerhans' cells
Langerhans' granule
Langerhans' islands
Langevin function
Langhans'-type giant cells
Langhans' cells
Langhans' layer
Langhans' stria
Langhans giant cell
Langi
Langkawi
Langley
Langley's granules
Langmuir (current term)
Langmuir circulation
Langmuir trough
Langobard
Langside
Langston Hughes
Langtry
Languas speciosa
Langue d'oc
Langue d'oc French
Langue d'oil
Langue d'oil French
Languedoc
Languedoc-Roussillon
Languedocian

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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