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Paper, 'On the nature of the salts term'd triple prussiates, and on acids formed by the union of certain bodies with the elements of the prussic acid' by Robert Porrett

Reference number: PT/8/27

Date: 06 June 1814

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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the nature of the salts termed triple prussiates, and on acids formed by the union of certain bodies with the elements of the prussic acid'.

Written by Porrett at Tower. Communicated by William Hyde Wollaston. Read 30 June 1814.

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/8/27
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06 June 1814
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22 pages
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Robert Porrett

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Robert Porrett, Paper, 'On the nature of the salts term'd triple prussiates, and on acids formed by the union of certain bodies with the elements of the prussic acid' by Robert Porrett, 06 June 1814, PT/8/27, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_8_27/paper-on-the-nature-of-the-salts-termd-triple-prussiates-and-on-acids-formed-by-the-union-of-certain-bodies-with-the-elements-of-the-prussic-acid-by-robert-porrett, accessed on 08 July 2025

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