XVI. Observations on naphthaline, a peculiar substance resembling a concrete essential oil, which is apparently produced during the decomposition of coal tar, by exposure to a red heat
@article{KiddXVIOO, title={XVI. Observations on naphthaline, a peculiar substance resembling a concrete essential oil, which is apparently produced during the decomposition of coal tar, by exposure to a red heat}, author={John Kidd}, journal={Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London}, pages={209 - 221} }
Although the existence, and many of the properties of the substance above-mentioned, have been already noticed in two of the Philosophical Journals of this country, there has not yet appeared, as far as I can discover, any systematic description of the mode by which it may be obtained, or of its relation to the substance from which it is produced; on which account I have been induced to offer to the Royal Society the following observations respecting these points of its history. In the…
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