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Paper, 'On a new detonating compound' in a letter from Sir H [Humphry] Davy to Right Hon Sir Jos [Joseph] Banks

Reference number: PT/7/1

Date: 1812

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A binding error has resulted in the final page of this manuscript being inserted into the volume after page 4 of PT/7/2.

Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On a new detonating compound, in a letter from Sir Humphry Davy, LL. D. F. R.S. to the Right Honourable Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. K. B. P. R. S'.

Read 5 November 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/7/1
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1812
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10 pages
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Humphry Davy

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Humphry Davy, Paper, 'On a new detonating compound' in a letter from Sir H [Humphry] Davy to Right Hon Sir Jos [Joseph] Banks, 1812, PT/7/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_7_1/paper-on-a-new-detonating-compound-in-a-letter-from-sir-h-humphry-davy-to-right-hon-sir-jos-joseph-banks, accessed on 13 October 2024

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