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Copper Carbonyl: a Correction

Nature volume 153, page 593 (1944)Cite this article

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RECENTLY1 we described a volatile compound, traces of which were formed when a variety of specimens of cuprous oxide were heated in carbon monoxide, as a carbonyl of copper. Further experiments have shown that the phenomena observed resulted from adventitious halide present in the oxides used.

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  1. Robinson and Stainthorpe, NATURE, 153, 24 (1944).

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ROBINSON, P., STAINTHORPE, K. Copper Carbonyl: a Correction. Nature 153, 593 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153593c0

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