On This Day - Jan 19 : Dewar produced solid air

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Dewar’s work on cooling gases formed the foundation of the field of cryogenics. He was the first person to produce liquid and solid hydrogen (H2), and the first to show that liquid oxygen (O2) is magnetic.

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