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Paper, 'On the spectra of some of the chemical elements' by William Huggins

Reference number: PT/70/1

Date: 1863

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Includes fold-out tables of data.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the spectra of some of the chemical elements'.

Communicated by W A [William Allen] Miller. Received by the Royal Society on 5 November 1863. Read 10 December 1863.

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 13, 1864.

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PT/70/1
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1863
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Ink on paper
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27 pages
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Manuscript

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William Huggins

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William Huggins, Paper, 'On the spectra of some of the chemical elements' by William Huggins, 1863, PT/70/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_70_1/paper-on-the-spectra-of-some-of-the-chemical-elements-by-william-huggins, accessed on 08 September 2024

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