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THOUGH it has been known for more than a century that air and oxygen acquire a peculiar odour when exposed to the action of electric sparks, and though Schönbein ascertained nearly half a century ago that this odour is due to a distinct form of matter, now called ozone, which is produced by the electrolysis of dilute sulphuric acid, by the action of electric discharge in air, and as a product of the slow oxidation of phosphorus, chemists are still trying to learn the exact conditions of the formation of this substance, and still investigating some of its simplest reactions; whilst inventors are but beginning the work of making it useful to man.
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The Production and Uses of Ozone. Nature 58, 416–418 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/058416a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/058416a0