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Paper, 'On the electro chemical polarity of gases' by W R [William Robert] Grove

Reference number: PT/43/7

Date: 27 December 1851

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Includes postscript dated 24 April [1852].

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the electro-chemical polarity of gases'.

Received by the Royal Society on 7 January 1852. Read 1 April 1852.

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 6, 1854.

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PT/43/7
Earliest possible date
27 December 1851
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Ink on paper
Page extent
31 pages
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Manuscript

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William Robert Grove

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William Robert Grove, Paper, 'On the electro chemical polarity of gases' by W R [William Robert] Grove, 27 December 1851, PT/43/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_43_7/paper-on-the-electro-chemical-polarity-of-gases-by-w-r-william-robert-grove, accessed on 08 May 2026

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