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Paper, 'On the aëriform compounds of charcoal and hydrogen, with an account of some additional experiments on the gases from oil and from coal' by William Henry

Reference number: PT/15/13

Date: 01 January 1821

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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the aëriform compounds of charcoal and hydrogen; with an account of some additional experiments on the gases from oil and from coal'.

Written by Henry in Manchester. Read 22 February 1821.

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/15/13
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01 January 1821
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32 pages
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Manuscript

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William Henry

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William Henry, Paper, 'On the aëriform compounds of charcoal and hydrogen, with an account of some additional experiments on the gases from oil and from coal' by William Henry, 01 January 1821, PT/15/13, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_15_13/paper-on-the-aëriform-compounds-of-charcoal-and-hydrogen-with-an-account-of-some-additional-experiments-on-the-gases-from-oil-and-from-coal-by-william-henry, accessed on 13 February 2025

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