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Paper, 'Further analytical experiments relative to the constitution of the prussic, of the ferruretted chyazic, and of the sulphuretted chyazic acids; and to that of their salts, together with the application of the atomic theory to the analysis of these bodies' by Robert Porrett

Reference number: PT/9/14

Date: 22 February 1815

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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Farther analytical experiments relative to the constitution of the prussic, of the ferruretted chyazic, and of the sulphuretted chyazic acids; and to that of their salts; together with the application of the atomic theory to the analyses of those bodies'.

Written by Porrett at Tower. Communicated by W H [William Hyde] Wollaston. Read 11 May 1815.

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/9/14
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22 February 1815
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Robert Porrett, Paper, 'Further analytical experiments relative to the constitution of the prussic, of the ferruretted chyazic, and of the sulphuretted chyazic acids; and to that of their salts, together with the application of the atomic theory to the analysis of these bodies' by Robert Porrett, 22 February 1815, PT/9/14, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_9_14/paper-further-analytical-experiments-relative-to-the-constitution-of-the-prussic-of-the-ferruretted-chyazic-and-of-the-sulphuretted-chyazic-acids-and-to-that-of-their-salts-together-with-the-application-of-the-atomic-theory-to-the-analysis-of-these-bodies-by-robert-porrett, accessed on 25 June 2025

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