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THE following details of the early history of the oxidation of ammonia, a process which became of great importance during the war, do not appear generally to be known, and may be of interest. The first clear statement of the oxidation of ammonia which I have seen is contained in a paper by the Rev. Isaac Milner, B.D., F.R.S., president of Queens' College, Cambridge, published in the Philosophical Transactions for 1789 (vol. 79, pt. 2, pp. 300–13), and republished in Crell's Annalen (1795, pt. 1, pp. 550–62). The title of the English paper is “On the Production of Nitrous Acid and Nitrous Air,” and the German paper is a translation, in which “nitrous acid” is rendered “Saltpetersäure” and “nitrous air” (i.e. nitric oxide, NO) “Saltpeterluft.”
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PARTINGTON, J. The Oxidation of Ammonia. Nature 109, 137–138 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109137b0
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