Paper, 'Contributions to our knowledge of antimony pentachloride' by Richard Anschütz and P Norman Evans

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The authors write: 'Some months ago we showed that antimony pentachloride can be distilled, undecomposed, under much diminished pressure; our next step was the attempt to determine the vapour-density under similar conditions. The fact that the boiling point of antimony pentachloride lies much lower than that of the trichloride would seem to show that the vapour-density of the pentachloride, as in the case of the trichloride, corresponds to the simpler formula. Nevertheless, on account of the fundamental importance which the establishment of the simple formula SbCl5 would have for the valence of antimony, it seemed indispensably necessary to make a determination of the vapour-density.'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Chemistry

Received 5 May 1887. Read 16 June 1887. Communicated by Alexander William Williamson.

A version of this paper was published in volume 42 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Contributions to our knowledge of antimony pentachloride'.

Reference number

PP/10/46

Earliest possible date

1887

Physical description

Ink and coloured pencil on paper

Page extent

13 pages

Format

Manuscript