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Unpublished paper, 'On the oxidation of glycol and on some salts of glyoxylic [oxoacetic] acid' by H [Heinrich] Debus

Reference number: AP/42/7

Date: 1859

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Debus describes a series of experiments he has undertaken on glycol and some salts of glyoxylic acid.

Subject: Chemistry

Received 16 March 1859. Communicated by John Tyndall.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 10 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the oxidation of glycol, and on some salts of glyoxylic acid'.

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AP/42/7
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1859
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15 pages
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Heinrich Debus

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Heinrich Debus, Unpublished paper, 'On the oxidation of glycol and on some salts of glyoxylic [oxoacetic] acid' by H [Heinrich] Debus, 1859, AP/42/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_42_7/unpublished-paper-on-the-oxidation-of-glycol-and-on-some-salts-of-glyoxylic-oxoacetic-acid-by-h-heinrich-debus, accessed on 22 January 2025

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