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Paper, 'On the nitroprussides, a new class of salts' by Lyon Playfair

Reference number: PT/36/8

Date: 1849

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87 manuscript pages including six figures.

Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the nitroprussides, a new class of salts'.

Received and read by the Royal Society on 21 June 1849.

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 5, 1851.

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PT/36/8
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1849
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Ink on paper
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87 pages
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Manuscript

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Lyon Playfair

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Lyon Playfair, Paper, 'On the nitroprussides, a new class of salts' by Lyon Playfair, 1849, PT/36/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_36_8/paper-on-the-nitroprussides-a-new-class-of-salts-by-lyon-playfair, accessed on 23 March 2025

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