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Of particular interest to our story is the translation of Hales Vegetable Staticks into French in 1735. Prior to this time it is hard to find in any of the Memoires of the Paris Academy any reference to air at all. Functionally, air had simply disappeared from the chemical tradition of Lemery that characterizes French chemistry of the period. Hales translator was le conte de Buffon (1707—1788), just then beginning his own career. Buffon was then, even as he has become known to historians, primarily a natural historian rather than a chemist, and his interest in the Vegetable Staticks no doubt originally came from that devotion. Yet what Buffon emphasizes in his Preface du Traducteur is the novelty and importance of Hales work on air. Even the title has been modified to make the work on air more prominently displayed. The full English title is reproduced on p. 124 (Fig. 2). 

Knusli, E. and H. Gysin (1960). Chemistry and herbicidal properties of triazine derivatives. Adv. Pest Cont. Res., 3 289-357. 

Wolfe N. L. and Macalady D. L. (1992) New perspectives in aquatic redox chemistry abiotic transformations of pollutants in groundwater and sediments. J. Cont. Hydrol. 9(1—2), 17-34. 

Koprivnjak, O., Moret, S., Populin, T., Lagazio, C., and Conte, C.S. Variety differentiation of virgin olive oil based on n-alkane profile. Food Chemistry, 90, 603-608. 2005. 

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