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Unpublished paper, 'On the method employed for exploding a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen gases by a spark obtained from a common magnet' by William Ritchie

Reference number: AP/15/26

Date: 1832

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Ritchie recounts his methodology for creating an experiment in which oxygen and hydrogen gases are exploding using a spark from an artificial magnet. Includes one figure in the text.

Subject: Physics / Chemistry

Read to the Royal Society on 24 May 1832. Ordered not to be printed 28 June 1832.

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AP/15/26
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1832
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Ink on paper
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5 pages
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Manuscript

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William Ritchie

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William Ritchie, Unpublished paper, 'On the method employed for exploding a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen gases by a spark obtained from a common magnet' by William Ritchie, 1832, AP/15/26, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_15_26/unpublished-paper-on-the-method-employed-for-exploding-a-mixture-of-oxygen-and-hydrogen-gases-by-a-spark-obtained-from-a-common-magnet-by-william-ritchie, accessed on 13 August 2026

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