Paper, 'On the fallacy of the experiments in which water is said to have been formed by the decomposition of chlorine' by Sir H [Humphry] Davy
Reference number: PT/12/10
Date: 1818
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Subject: Chemistry
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the fallacy of the experiments in which water is said to have been formed by the decomposition of chlorine'.
Read 12 February 1818.
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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- 1818
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- 7 pages
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Humphry Davy, Paper, 'On the fallacy of the experiments in which water is said to have been formed by the decomposition of chlorine' by Sir H [Humphry] Davy, 1818, PT/12/10, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_12_10/paper-on-the-fallacy-of-the-experiments-in-which-water-is-said-to-have-been-formed-by-the-decomposition-of-chlorine-by-sir-h-humphry-davy, accessed on 04 December 2025
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