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Veley writes: 'Throughout the whole science of chemistry there is possibly no reagent so frequently represented as taking part in various trans­formations, but of which so little definite is known, as nitrous acid. In many text-books its properties are cursorily discussed in a few lines, while some writers have gone so far as to deny its existence altogether even in the presence of nitric acid.'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Chemistry

Received 12 April 1892. Read 2 June 1892. Communicated by William Odling.

A version of this paper was published in volume 52 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'The conditions of the formation and decomposition of nitrous acid'.

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PP/20/4
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1892
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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41 pages
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Manuscript

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Victor Herbert Veley

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Victor Herbert Veley, Paper, 'The conditions of the formation and decomposition of nitrous acid' by Victor Herbert Veley, 1892, PP/20/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_20_4/paper-the-conditions-of-the-formation-and-decomposition-of-nitrous-acid-by-victor-herbert-veley, accessed on 13 February 2025

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