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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On a new compound of chlorine and carbon'.

Communicated by Sir Humphry Davy. Read 12 July 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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PT/15/29
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1821
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Ink on paper
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7 pages
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Manuscript

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Richard Phillips

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Michael Faraday

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Richard Phillips, Michael Faraday, Paper, 'On a new compound of chlorine and carbon' by Richard Phillips and Michael Faraday, 1821, PT/15/29, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_15_29/paper-on-a-new-compound-of-chlorine-and-carbon-by-richard-phillips-and-michael-faraday, accessed on 11 July 2026

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