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The Reaction and Its Nomenclature, Formulae, and Units

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New compositional nomenclature had been proposed by four famous French chemists, Guyton de Morveau, Lavoisier, Fourcroy, and Berthollet in the late eighteenth century.

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de Berg, K.C. (2019). The Reaction and Its Nomenclature, Formulae, and Units. In: The Iron(III) Thiocyanate Reaction. SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27316-3_3

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