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Paper, 'Experiments on the alcohol of sulphur, or sulphuret of carbon' by J [Jons Jacob] Berzelius and Alex [Alexander] Marcet

Reference number: PT/7/23

Date: 1813

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52 manuscript pages and one plate showing a method for distilling sulphuret.

Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Experiments on the alcohol of sulphur, or sulphuret of carbon'.

Read 13 May 1813.

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 1, 1832.

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PT/7/23
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1813
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Ink on paper
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53 pages
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Manuscript

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Jons Jakob Berzelius

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Alexander John Gaspard Marcet

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Jons Jakob Berzelius, Alexander John Gaspard Marcet, Paper, 'Experiments on the alcohol of sulphur, or sulphuret of carbon' by J [Jons Jacob] Berzelius and Alex [Alexander] Marcet, 1813, PT/7/23, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_7_23/paper-experiments-on-the-alcohol-of-sulphur-or-sulphuret-of-carbon-by-j-jons-jacob-berzelius-and-alex-alexander-marcet, accessed on 13 December 2025

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