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TOWARDS the end of the last century, Van Marum, while experimenting with his powerful electrical machine, observed that oxygen gas through which electrical sparks had been passed acquired a peculiar odour and the property of attacking mercury. This subject attracted no further attention for upwards of half a century after the publication.of Van Marum's observations.
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Ozone * . Nature 9, 347–349 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/009347a0
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