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MURRAY, JOHN (17781820) , Scottish chemist, was born
Edinburgh
chemistry and materia medica. He was an opponent of Sir Humphry Davy's theory of chlorine, supporting the view that the substance contained oxygen, and it was in the course of experiments made to disprove his arguments that Dr John Davy discovered phosgene or carbonyl chloride. He was a diligent writer of textbooks, including Elements of Chemistry (18o1); Elements of Materia Medica and Pharmacy (1804); A System
Comparative
Geology . He is sometimes confused with another John Murray (17861851), a popular lecturer at mechanics
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