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SINCE the publication by M. Moissan of his celebrated paper in the Annales de Chimie et de Physique for December 1887, describing the manner in which he had succeeded in isolating this remarkable gaseous element, a considerable amount of additional information has been acquired concerning the chemical behaviour of fluorine, and important additions and improvements have been introduced in the apparatus employed for preparing and experimenting with the gas. M. Moissan now gathers together the results of these subsequent researches—some of which have been published by him from time to time as contributions to various French scientific journals, while others have not hitherto been made known—and publishes them in a long but most interesting paper in the October number of the Annales de Chimie et de Physique. Inasmuch as the experiments described are of so extraordinary a nature, owing to the intense chemical activity of fluorine, and are so important as filling a long existing vacancy in our chemical literature, readers of NATURE will doubtless be interested in a brief account of them.
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TUTTON, A. Further Researches upon the Element Fluorine. Nature 44, 622–626 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/044622a0
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