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Paper, 'The Bakerian Lecture. On the relations of electrical and chemical changes' by Sir H [Humphry] Davy

Reference number: PT/18/18

Date: 1826

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Subject: Chemistry

Published in volume 116 of Philosophical Transactions as 'The Bakerian Lecture. On the relations of electrical and chemical changes'.

Read 8 June 1826.

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/18/18
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1826
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38 pages
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Humphry Davy

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Humphry Davy, Paper, 'The Bakerian Lecture. On the relations of electrical and chemical changes' by Sir H [Humphry] Davy, 1826, PT/18/18, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_18_18/paper-the-bakerian-lecture-on-the-relations-of-electrical-and-chemical-changes-by-sir-h-humphry-davy, accessed on 14 October 2024

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