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Purification of Sulphur

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IT is never a very pleasant or gracious task to reply to criticism. When that criticism, however, is based on a misapprehension of the facts, and is consequently wrong and misleading, and is, moreover, enforced by whatever weight “authority” may carry, its correction is simplified down to a plain matter of duty. The criticism to which I refer is contained in Prof. Armstrong's address to the Chemical Society (Chem. Soc. Journ., vol. xxxix. p. 1160), which has just come before me.

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THRELFALL, R. Purification of Sulphur. Nature 54, 224–225 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/054224a0

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