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April I7, I823.–Though Dalton in 1801 had remarked, “There can scarcely be a doubt entertained respecting the reducibility of all elastic fluids of whatever kind into liquids, and we ought not to despair of effecting it in low temperatures and by strong pressures exerted on the unmixed gases,” it was not until 1823 that the question was submitted to systematic experiment. Faraday then first obtained liquid chloride and afterwards liquid carbonic acid, ammonia, etc. The details of this work were given to the Royal Society by Faraday in two papers dated Mar. 13 and April 10, and on April 17, Davy in another paper suggested the employment of some of these substances as mechanical agents.
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S., E. Calendar of Discovery and Invention. Nature 119, 584 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119584a0
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