Excerpt from The Liquefaction of Gases: Papers by Michael Faraday, F. R. S., (1823-1845); With an Appendix Consisting of Papers by Thomas Northmore, on the Compression of Gases (1805-1806) T is well known that before the year 1810, the solid substance obtained by exposing chlorine, as usually procured, to a low temperature, was considered as the gas itself reduced into that form and that Sir humphry davy first showed it to be a hydrate, the pure dry gas not being condensible even at a temperature of 40 Degrees ET I took advantage of the late cold weather to procure crystals of this substance for the purpose of analysis. The results are contained in a short paper in the Quarterly Journal of Science, Vol. XV. Its composition is very nearly chlorine, water, or 1 proportional of chlorine, and 10 of water.

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