Faraday’s laboratory manual and the isolation of benzene
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Andrea Sella2025-06-24T08:34:00
Instruction on how to be as much at home in the lab as was the man himself
Just imagine if you had been in the audience on 16 June 1825, as Michael Faraday described his isolation of ‘bicarburet of hydrogen’. You would have been present for the start of a chemical quest that persists to this day.