A 



JOURNAL 



OF 



NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, CHEMISTRY, 



THE ARTS. 



SEPTEMBER, 1803. 



ARTICLE I. 



Experiments and Obfervations on the Compound of Sidphur and 

 Phofphonis, and the dangerous Explojjons it makes when ex- 

 pofed to Heat. 5y Frederick Accum, PraBicaiChemiJi 

 and Teacher of Chemijlry. Communicated by the Author. 



JViARGRAFF, I believe, was the firft who noticed theCompound 6f 



combination of phofphorus and fulphur; and Pelletier ex-P'^^^P^^'^^^"* 



. . - fulphur j when 



amined afterwards this compound, and pointed out fome of f5ift examined. 



its properties *. The latter philofopher fliowed, at leaft, 

 that the compound refulting from the union of phofphorus 

 and fulphur, in different proportions, is infinitely more fufible 

 than either of them taken feparately. Repeating the experi- 

 ments of the French philofopher, I had no apprehenfion that not fuppofed to 



the combination of thefe two fimple bodies was attended, .''^ ""^"^'"^ '''*** 



f . . danger. 



under certain circumftances, with confequences which might 



prove fatal to the chemical operator. And it is with the vievV 

 of preventing my brother chemifts from falling a facrifice to 

 unexpe6ted dangers, that I (liaH relate an accident, which 

 might have been attended with the moft dangerous con- 

 fequences, before I ftate the properties which charaderife 

 the compound which is the fubjedt of thefe lines. The aC' 



* Journal de Phyfique, xxxv. 383. 

 Vol. VL — September. B cident 



