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IN a recent paper (J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 45, 1184 (1923)) Spoehr states that he has been entirely unable to reproduce our results on the photochemical production of formaldehyde from carbon dioxide and water (Trans. Chem. Soc., 119, 1025 (1921)), and he invites us to describe our experimental methods in greater detail than we did in our original communication. Before replying to this invitation we have repeated all our experiments and the new results entirely confirm the old, and there seems, therefore, to be little or no doubt that by the action of short wave ultra-violet light on aqueous solutions of carbonic acid formaldehyde is formed.
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BALY, E., HEILBRON, I. & BARKER, W. Photochemical Production of Formaldehyde. Nature 112, 323 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112323a0
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