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EVEN politicians are attracted to this problem and see in it not red but the oils of to-morrow. If peers speculate in futures, why not we plebeian sciencers, who give our lives to such matters, not a princely two days or so? The victim of a pernicious complaint contracted in the service of the British Association in the granitic environment of Aberdeen, pursuing the vicious line of thought which has afflicted me since 1885, I have recently been led to make logical use of my singular views on the course of chemical change and apply them fully to this most remarkable, perhaps the most remarkable, of molecules—carbonic oxide. No other molecule has “taken us in’ so long. All my life I have been seeking to fathom its mysterious depths: even now I don't feel in safe soundings.
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AMSTRONG, H. The Reduction of Carbonic Oxide. Nature 118, 265 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118265a0
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