Almost 150 years ago, in the very first volume of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, issue 6, published in 1879, Henry Morton begins, “There is a piece of recent chemical history which has already become somewhat involved on account of the oversight of some writers.” #chemsky 🧪
Volume I of JACS came with fabric samples—to prove a pointAnalytical chemists study the nearly 150-year-old dyescen.acs.org