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Paper, 'On phosphonium chloride' by Sidney Skinner

Reference number: PP/10/35

Date: 1887

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Skinner writes: 'At the close of an interesting paper in the ‘Annales de Chimie,’ vol. 20, 1880, Ogier describes the preparation of the compound phosphoninm chloride. When the two gases phosphine and hydrochloric acid are mixed at 14°C. under atmospheric pressure they do not combine; but when the pressure is raised to 20 atmospheres small crystals of the compound PH4Cl form at the upper end of the tube.'

Annotations in pencil and ink. Includes two graphs of maximum pressures and saturated volumes.

Subject: Chemistry

Received 28 March 1887. Read 21 April 1887. Communicated by James Dewar.

A version of this paper was published in volume 42 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On phosphonium chloride'.

Reference number
PP/10/35
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1887
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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9 pages
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Manuscript

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Sidney Skinner

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Sidney Skinner, Paper, 'On phosphonium chloride' by Sidney Skinner, 1887, PP/10/35, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_10_35/paper-on-phosphonium-chloride-by-sidney-skinner, accessed on 08 June 2026

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