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Paper, 'The Bakerian Lecture for 1809. On some new electrochemical researches on various objects, particularly the metallic bodies from the alkalies and earths and on some combinations of hydrogene' by Humphry Davy

Reference number: PT/4/2

Date: 1809

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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The Bakerian Lecture for 1809. On some new electrochemical researches, on various objects, particularly the metallic bodies, from the alkalies, and earths, and on some combinations of hydrogene'.

Read 16 November 1809.

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/4/2
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1809
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Humphry Davy

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Humphry Davy, Paper, 'The Bakerian Lecture for 1809. On some new electrochemical researches on various objects, particularly the metallic bodies from the alkalies and earths and on some combinations of hydrogene' by Humphry Davy, 1809, PT/4/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_4_2/paper-the-bakerian-lecture-for-1809-on-some-new-electrochemical-researches-on-various-objects-particularly-the-metallic-bodies-from-the-alkalies-and-earths-and-on-some-combinations-of-hydrogene-by-humphry-davy, accessed on 13 October 2024

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