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RefNoAP/10/7
LevelItem
TitlePaper, 'On the mutual action of sulphuric acid and alcohol, with observations on the composition and properties of the resulting compound' by Henry Hennell
Date[1826]
DescriptionHennell describes experiments carried out to determine the nature of the substance produced through the distillation of sulphuric acid and alcohol, typically called oil of wine. He determines that the substance is a previously undescribed compound of sulphuric acid, carbon, and hydrogen.

Corrections appear throughout in ink.

Subject: Chemistry

Communicated by W T [William Thomas] Brande. Read to the Royal Society on 9 March 1826.

This paper was published in the 1826 volume of Philosophical Transactions as 'On the mutual action of sulphuric acid and alcohol, with observations on the composition and properties of the resulting compound'.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society], volume 2.
Extent17p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0289
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1826.0021
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA3249Brande; William Thomas (1788 - 1866)1788 - 1866
NA5862Hennell; Henry (- 1842) - 1842
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