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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of some experiments on the combinations of different metals and chlorine, &c'.

Communicated by Humphry Davy. Read 27 February 1812.

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/6/9
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1812
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Ink on paper
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58 pages
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Manuscript

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John Davy

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John Davy, Paper, 'An account of some experiments on the combinations of different metals and chlorine, etc.' by John Davy, 1812, PT/6/9, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_6_9/paper-an-account-of-some-experiments-on-the-combinations-of-different-metals-and-chlorine-etc-by-john-davy, accessed on 19 July 2026

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