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Paper, 'On the limited hydration of ammonium carbamate' by H J H [Henry John Horstman] Fenton

Reference number: PP/7/16

Date: 1885

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Fenton writes: 'It occurred to me that a study of the action of water on ammonium carbamate, with reference to the influence of time, mass, and temperature, would be of interest as tending to throw light upon the laws which govern a chemical action of the simplest type in the liquid state—the action consisting of the direct union of two simpler molecules to form one more complex— CO(NH2) (ONH4) + OH2 = CO(ONH4)2.'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Chemistry

Received 19 November 1885. Read Communicated by Hugo Muller.

A version of this paper was published in volume 39 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the limited hydration of ammonium carbamate'.

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PP/7/16
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1885
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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13 pages
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Henry John Horstman Fenton, Paper, 'On the limited hydration of ammonium carbamate' by H J H [Henry John Horstman] Fenton, 1885, PP/7/16, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_7_16/paper-on-the-limited-hydration-of-ammonium-carbamate-by-h-j-h-henry-john-horstman-fenton, accessed on 24 January 2026

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