Revista de Chimica Pura e Applicada

The Revista de Chimica Pura e Applicada (Journal of Pure and Applied Chemistry)... 

Ferreira da Silva was also behind the foundation, in 1905, of the Revista de Chimica Pura e Applicada (Journal of Pure and Applied Chemistry - RCPA, Figure 12.1). This journal, the first Portuguese specialized chemical journal, succeeded to the Revista Chimico-Pharmaceutica (Chemical-Pharmaceutical Journal), created by a group of students of the Pharmacy School of... 

Aguiar, A. (1924a), Dr. Antonio Joaquim Ferreira da Silva, Revista de Chimica Pura e Applicada 16, 7-11. 

Costanzo, G. (1920), Formulas para os dioptricos e para os reflectores de revolugao. Revista de Chimica Pura e Applicada 5, 117-128. 

Couceiro da Costa (1925), Aplicagao da Termodinamica ao estudo da distilagao e cristalizagao fraccionadas. Revista de Chimica Pura e Applicada 17, 28-37. 

Machado, A. R. (1918), Estudo geral do nonio Sua origem. Teoria. Cons-trugao e Usos praticos. Revista de Chimica Pura e Applicada 13, 40-60. 

N/A (1914), Sociedade Chimica Portuguesa. Relatorio da Direcgao ao anno de 1913, Revista de Chimica Pura e Applicada 10, 1-25. 

N/A (1917a), Acta. Sessao Administrativa e Scientifica de 30 de Abril de 1915, Revista de Chimica Pura e Applicada 12, 398-400. 

Ferreira da Silva was the first director of both the Municipal and the Polytechnic School Chemical Laboratories. His lectures on chemistry and chemical works and experimental studies on the toxicology of wines, oils, vinegars, and water, carried out by him and his team in these laboratories, attracted the attention of an influential audience. His intense activity and his international contacts, namely with Marcelin Berthelot, led to the publication of the first Portuguese chemical periodical, the Revista de Chimica Pura e Applicada, and to the creation of the Portuguese Chemical... 

Society, two precious and fundamental milestones in the development of chemistry in Portugal, in the first decades of the twentieth century. Revista de Chimica Pura e Applicada was first published in 1905 in Porto (Amorim da Costa, 1998, 277). 

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