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Justus Lietig's Annalen der Chemie. Band 169, Heft 3.—This number of the Annalen contains the following papers:—On the decomposition of nitric acid by heat, by L. Cairus. This paper, upwards of seventy pages in length, deals exhaustively with the subject. Very numerous tables of the results of various conditions of temperature, &c., are given, and the paper is illustrated with two plates.—On the chlorides of molybdenum, by Dr. L. P. Liechti and B. Kempe.—Chlorides of the formulas MoCl2, MoCl3, MoCl4, and MoCl5 are described. The authors point out the parallelism shown by these bodies to the Tungsten chlorides, where, however, Tungsten wants the corresponding trichloride, while molybdenum wants the hexachloride. In both these series the colours of the salts become darker as the chlorine increases in quantity.—On the atomic weight of molybdenum, by L. Meyer. The author from sixteen results deduces the atomic weight 95.86 for molybdenum, chlorine being taken as 35.37 and silver 107.66. This agrees very well with the result obtained by Dumas 96, and by Debray 95. 94. The author also points out the following relations in three groups of elements:—
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Scientific Serials . Nature 9, 194–195 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/009194a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/009194a0