On the mutual action of sulphuric acid and naphthaline, and on a new acid produced / [Michael Faraday].

  • Faraday, Michael, 1791-1867
Date:
1826
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Credit: On the mutual action of sulphuric acid and naphthaline, and on a new acid produced / [Michael Faraday]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ON THE MUTUAL ACTION, &c. Read before the Royal Society, February 16, 1826. In a Paper on new compounds of carbon and hydrogen, lately honoured by the Royal Society with a place in the Philoso- phical Transactions, I had occasion briefly to notice, the peculiar action exerted on certain of those compounds by sulphuric acid. During my attempts to ascertain more minutely the general nature of this action, I was led to sus- pect the occasional combination of the hydro-carbonaceous matter with the acid, and even its entrance into the constitu- tion of the salts, which the acid afterwards formed with bases. Although this opinion proved incorrect, relative to the pecu- liar hydro-carbons forming the subject of that Paper, yet it led to experiments upon analogous bodies, and amongst others, upon naphthaline, which terminated in the production of the new acid body and salts now to be described. Some of the results obtained by the use of the oil gas products are very peculiar. If, when completed, I find them sufficiently interesting, I shall think it my duty to place them before the Royal Society, as explicatory of that action of sulphuric acid which was briefly noticed in my last Paper. Most authors who have had occasion to describe naph- thaline, have noticed its habitudes with sulphuric acid. B