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EVER since the middle of last century, much chemical research work has been carried out at Prague. Some of the investigations, notably Prof. B. Brauner's work on atomic weights and on the rare earth elements, attracted wide attention, but much valuable, if less spectacular, work was overlooked. Few Czech men of science published in English journals; the majority of their researches appeared in the little-read Czech publications. To direct more attention to their achievements, Czechoslovak chemists founded in 1928 under the joint editorship of Profs. Votoček and Heyrovský the Collection of Czechoslovak Chemical Communications, in which the contributions were written in French or English. Among the more interesting contributions that have appeared recently in this journal mention may be made of the discovery by Prof. Kfěpelka and Dr. Novotny that mercurous halides show marked triboluminescence, the actual intensity depending on the conditions of preparation. Prof. šimek has also made some observations on the curious electrical behaviour of fused tellurium dioxide. In organic chemistry, Drs. Landa and Machaček have described a new solid hydrocarbon, C10H16, to which they assign the name adamantane. A series of researches by Prof. Votoček and his collaborators has cleared up a number of points in connexion with the lesser-known sugars such as rhamnose, rhodeose and fucose. Prof. Heyrovský has also published a series of papers (referred to in NATURE of March 10, p. 385) dealing with his polarographic studies with the dropping mercury cathode.
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Chemical Researches in Czechoslovakia. Nature 133, 791 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133791a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/133791a0