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Buff shares details and characteristics of a series of hydrocarbons.

Annotations in pencil and ink throughout.

Subject: Organic chemistry

Received 10 June 1856. Communicated by A W [August Wilhelm von] Hofmann.

This paper was published in full in volume 8 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On some compounds of ethylene'.

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AP/38/31
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1856
Physical description
Ink and graphite pencil on paper
Page extent
10 pages
Format
Manuscript

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H L Buff

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H L Buff, Paper, 'On some compounds of ethylene' by H L Buff, 1856, AP/38/31, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_38_31/paper-on-some-compounds-of-ethylene-by-h-l-buff, accessed on 25 March 2025

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