Robert Porrett, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London (1833)
“ Mr. Porrett's present object is to add the results of two new analyses, made with great care, and to correct those inaccuracies of experiment, which are at all times unavoidable, by the assistance of the theory of Dalton respecting the relative weights of atoms, and of Berzelius respecting multiple doses of oxygen. ”
Robert Porrett, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London (1833)
“ By a number of trials he found that this was not completely effected till the quantity of red oxide added amounted to five times the quantity contained in the prussiate. In the decomposition of prussiate of mercury alone by heat, it is only one sixth part of the prussic acid, which is decomposed by the quantity of oxygen in the oxide present as a constituent of that salt, and hence five more equal quantities are requisite to effect the complete decomposition of the whole. ”
