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IV. Some Experiments on Gold

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2013

Thomas Thomson
Thomas Thomson
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Professor of Chemistry in the University of Glasgow.
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In the first volume of my “Attempt to establish the First Principles of Chemistry by Experiment,” p. 442, I give the analysis of the sodium chloride of gold, and find the constituents to be

But I state at the same time, my uncertainty whether the gold in the salt was in the state of a chloride or muriate. This uncertainty raising a doubt, whether the peroxide of gold contained two or three atoms of oxygen, I thought it highly necessary to clear it up. In this paper, I shall state the experiments which I have made with that object in view.

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Research Article
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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , 1828 , pp. 23 - 32
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1828

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