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Paper, 'Observations on naphthaline, a peculiar substance resembling a concrete essential oil, which is apparently produced during the decomposition of coal tar by exposure to a red heat' by J [John] Kidd

Reference number: PT/15/16

Date: 1821

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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Observations on naphthaline, a peculiar substance resembling a concrete essential oil, which is apparently produced during the decomposition of coal tar, by exposure to a red heat'.

Communicated by Wm [William] H [Hyde] Wollaston. Read 8 March 1821.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833.

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1821
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John Kidd, Paper, 'Observations on naphthaline, a peculiar substance resembling a concrete essential oil, which is apparently produced during the decomposition of coal tar by exposure to a red heat' by J [John] Kidd, 1821, PT/15/16, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_15_16/paper-observations-on-naphthaline-a-peculiar-substance-resembling-a-concrete-essential-oil-which-is-apparently-produced-during-the-decomposition-of-coal-tar-by-exposure-to-a-red-heat-by-j-john-kidd, accessed on 25 June 2025

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