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EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCHES IN PURE, APPLIED, AND 



PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY. 



By E. FRANKLAND, Ph.D., D.C.L., F.R.S., 



Professor of Chemistry in the Royal School of Mines, &c. 



" A clear and detailed account of some of the most remarkable researches of 

 our time in Synthetic Chemistry." — Nature, Jan. 17, 1878. 



John Van Voorst, 1 Paternoster Row. 



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