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Paper, 'Some new experiments and observations on the combustion of gaseous mixtures, with an account of a method for keeping a continued light in mixtures of inflammable gases and air without flame' by Sir H [Humphry] Davy

Reference number: PT/11/7

Date: 1817

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Illustrations for this paper have been separated from the manuscript and are found at PT/73/6/7.

Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Some new experiments and observations on the combustion of gaseous mixtures, with an account of a method of preserving a continued light in mixtures of inflammable gases and air without flame'.

Read 23 January 1817.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833.

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PT/11/7
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1817
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20 pages
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Humphry Davy

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Humphry Davy, Paper, 'Some new experiments and observations on the combustion of gaseous mixtures, with an account of a method for keeping a continued light in mixtures of inflammable gases and air without flame' by Sir H [Humphry] Davy, 1817, PT/11/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_11_7/paper-some-new-experiments-and-observations-on-the-combustion-of-gaseous-mixtures-with-an-account-of-a-method-for-keeping-a-continued-light-in-mixtures-of-inflammable-gases-and-air-without-flame-by-sir-h-humphry-davy, accessed on 05 October 2024

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