Unpublished paper, 'On a new combination of chlorine and nitrous gas' by Edmund Davy
Reference number: AP/15/3
Date: 1831
Description
Davy describes his experiments on the gases produced by the combination of nitric acid and various chlorides and of nitric and muriatic acids. He describes in detail a type of gas created by combining powdered chloride of sodium, potassium, or calcium and nitric acid. Originally written in a letter to Davies Gilbert.
John George Children's initials appear next to the date read. Some annotations and deletions appear throughout in graphite.
Subject: Chemistry
Read to the Royal Society on 10 and 17 February 1831.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'On a new combination of chlorine and nitrous gas'.
- Reference number
- AP/15/3
- Earliest possible date
- 1831
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 14 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Edmund Davy, Unpublished paper, 'On a new combination of chlorine and nitrous gas' by Edmund Davy, 1831, AP/15/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_15_3/unpublished-paper-on-a-new-combination-of-chlorine-and-nitrous-gas-by-edmund-davy, accessed on 20 April 2026
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On a new combination of chlorine and nitrous gas. By Edmund Davy, Esq. F. R. S. M. R. I. A. Professor of Chemistry to the Royal Dublin Society. Communicated in a letter to Davies Gilbert, Esq. late President of the Royal Society;—was commenced External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1837
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0010
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Archived papers: volume 15, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1831-1832
1830-1832 Reference number: AP/15
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