Author:Robert Porrett

Robert Porrett
(1783–1868)

Works

In the Transactions of the Society of Arts:

• ‘A Memoir on the Prussic Acid’ (1809, xxvii. 89–103).

In Nicholson's Journal:

• ‘On the Prussic and Prussous Acids’ (1810, xxv. 344).
• ‘On the Combination of Chlorine with Oil of Turpentine’ (1812, xxxiii. 194).
• ‘On the Explosive Compound of Chlorine and Azote’ (with R. Kirk and W. Wilson) (1813, xxxiv. 276).

In Philosophical Transactions:

• ‘On the Nature of the Salts termed Triple Prussiates, and on Acids formed by the Union of certain Bodies with the Elements of Prussic Acid’ (6 June 1814, p. 527).
• "Farther analytical Experiments relative to the Constitution of the prussic, of the ferruretted chyazic, and of the sulphuretted chyazic Acids" in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 2 (1815), pp. 21–22

In Thomson's Annals of Philosophy:

• ‘Curious Galvanic Experiments’ (1816, viii. 74).
• ‘Observations on the Flame of a Candle’ (viii. 337).
• ‘On the Triple Prussiate of Potash’ (1818, xii. 214).
• ‘On the Anthrazothion of Von Grotthuss, and on Sulphuretted Chyazic Acid’ (1819, xiii. 356).
• ‘On Ferrochyazate of Potash and the Atomic Weight of Iron’ (1819, xiv. 295).

In the Chemical Society's Memoirs:

• ‘On the Chemical Composition of Gun-Cotton’ (in conjunction with E. Teschemacher) (1846, iii. 258).
• ‘On the Existence of a new Alkali in Gun-Cotton’ (iii. 287).

Works about Porritt

• "Porrett, Robert," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.