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Unpublished paper, 'On allotropic or active nitrogen and on the complete synthesis of ammonia' by George Stillingfleet Johnson

Reference number: AP/61/11

Date: 1881-1882

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Johnson describes a series of experiments on allotropic or active nitrogen and on the complete synthesis of ammonia.

Annotations in pencil throughout. Includes an uncorrected printed proof of the paper, dated 23 September 1882. Bound with one page of pencil diagrams associated with a paper abstracted in volume 31 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the genus Culeolus' by William Abbott Herdman.

Subject: Inorganic chemistry

Received 8 October 1881. Communicated by George Johnson.

Reference number
AP/61/11
Earliest possible date
1881-1882
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
Page extent
24 pages
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Manuscript
Printed

Creator name

George Stillingfleet Johnson, George Stillingfleet (1851-1937)

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George Stillingfleet Johnson, George Stillingfleet (1851-1937), Unpublished paper, 'On allotropic or active nitrogen and on the complete synthesis of ammonia' by George Stillingfleet Johnson, 1881-1882, AP/61/11, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_61_11/unpublished-paper-on-allotropic-or-active-nitrogen-and-on-the-complete-synthesis-of-ammonia-by-george-stillingfleet-johnson, accessed on 05 December 2024

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