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chained_bear commented on the word nitrosophenyline
"Perkin's earliest tasks concerned the formation of organic bases from hydrocarbons, but he was more interested in the results of his next assignment which led to one of his earliest published papers. At the beginning of February 1856 he submitted to the Proceedings of the Royal Society a brief report 'On some new Colouring Matters' he had found with Arthur Church. 'This new body presents some remarkable properties,' they wrote. That substance, which they named nitrosophenyline, was the result of an experiment with hydrogen and a distillation of benzol. It produced a bright crimson colour, it dissolved in alcohol with an orange-red tint, and it changed to a yellowish-brown when diluted with alkali. They concluded that it had 'a lustre somewhat similar to that of murexide', the rich purple originally made from guano."
Simon Garfield, Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color that Changed the World (London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 2000), 28.
October 4, 2017