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Paper, 'Electrochemical reserches [sic] on the decomposition of the earths, with observations on the metal obtained from the alkaline earth, and on the amalgam procured from ammonia' by Humphry Davy

Reference number: PT/2/23

Date: 1808

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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Electro-chemical researches, on the decomposition of the earths; with observations on the metals obtained from the alkaline earths, and on the amalgam procured from ammonia'.

Read 30 June 1808.

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 1, 1832.

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PT/2/23
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1808
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106 pages
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Humphry Davy

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Humphry Davy, Paper, 'Electrochemical reserches [sic] on the decomposition of the earths, with observations on the metal obtained from the alkaline earth, and on the amalgam procured from ammonia' by Humphry Davy, 1808, PT/2/23, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_2_23/paper-electrochemical-reserches-sic-on-the-decomposition-of-the-earths-with-observations-on-the-metal-obtained-from-the-alkaline-earth-and-on-the-amalgam-procured-from-ammonia-by-humphry-davy, accessed on 19 July 2025

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