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Paper, 'On an easier mode of procuring potassium than that which is now adopted' by Smithson Tennant

Reference number: PT/8/30

Date: 1814

Description

Eight manuscript pages and one plate showing the setup of the glass tube used in procuring potassium from iron and potash.

Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On an easier mode of procuring potassium than that which is now adopted'.

Read 23 June 1814.

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/8/30
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1814
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Ink on paper
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9 pages
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Manuscript

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Smithson Tennant

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Smithson Tennant, Paper, 'On an easier mode of procuring potassium than that which is now adopted' by Smithson Tennant, 1814, PT/8/30, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_8_30/paper-on-an-easier-mode-of-procuring-potassium-than-that-which-is-now-adopted-by-smithson-tennant, accessed on 19 January 2025

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