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Unpublished paper, 'On the ferrosesquicyanuret of potassium' by Alfred Smee

Reference number: AP/23/41

Date: 10 January 1840

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Smee examines the action of chlorine upon the ferrocyanate of potassa [potassium ferrocyanide], and the conversion of the latter into ferrosesquicyanuret. He proposes methods for obtaining uncontaminated ferrosesquicyanuret. He includes an appendix detailing the action of the sodo ferrocyanate of potash on a series of metals.

Subject: Chemistry

Received 30 March 1840. Communicated by P M [Peter Mark] Roget.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 4 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'On the ferrosesquicyanuret of potassium'.

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AP/23/41
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10 January 1840
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35 pages
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Alfred Smee

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Alfred Smee, Unpublished paper, 'On the ferrosesquicyanuret of potassium' by Alfred Smee, 10 January 1840, AP/23/41, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_23_41/unpublished-paper-on-the-ferrosesquicyanuret-of-potassium-by-alfred-smee, accessed on 12 December 2024

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