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Paper, 'Some experiments and observations on the substances produced in different chemical processes on fluor spar [fluorite]' by Sir H [Humphry] Davy

Reference number: PT/7/31

Date: 1813

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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Some experiments and observations on the substances produced in different chemical processes on fluor spar'.

Read 8 July 1813.

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/7/31
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1813
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Ink on paper
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38 pages
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Manuscript

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Humphry Davy

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Humphry Davy, Paper, 'Some experiments and observations on the substances produced in different chemical processes on fluor spar [fluorite]' by Sir H [Humphry] Davy, 1813, PT/7/31, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_7_31/paper-some-experiments-and-observations-on-the-substances-produced-in-different-chemical-processes-on-fluor-spar-fluorite-by-sir-h-humphry-davy, accessed on 22 March 2025

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