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    With regard to Zeise’s analytical data, Berzelius made the following comment: “It would indeed be difficult to demand a more complete agreement between the theory and the actual results”; J. Berzelius, Jahresber. 18, 445 (1839).

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    Since it was not uncommon in those days, Frankland published his work also in English; see: J. Chem. Soc. 2, 263–296 (1850).

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    J. Tyndall in a letter dated the 2nd of July 1849 to T. A. Hirst (see [47]). Halifax is a town near Leeds in England.

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Werner, H. (2009). The Nineteenth Century: A Sequence of Accidental Discoveries. In: Landmarks in Organo-Transition Metal Chemistry. Profiles in Inorganic Chemistry. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09848-7_3

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