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Paper, 'Note on the position of aluminum [aluminium] in the voltaic series' by Charles Wheatstone

Reference number: AP/37/28

Date: 25 April 1855

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Wheatstone inspects the physical properties of a specimen of aluminium.

Subject: Chemistry

Received 25 April 1855.

This paper was published in full in volume 7 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Note on the position of aluminum in the voltaic series'.

A version of this paper was published by Wheatstone in the Journal of the Franklin Institute: Wheatstone, Charles. 'On the position of aluminum in the voltaic series.' Journal of the Franklin Institute, volume 30, number 5 (1840), p. 356.

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AP/37/28
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25 April 1855
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3 pages
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Charles Wheatstone

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Charles Wheatstone, Paper, 'Note on the position of aluminum [aluminium] in the voltaic series' by Charles Wheatstone, 25 April 1855, AP/37/28, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_37_28/paper-note-on-the-position-of-aluminum-aluminium-in-the-voltaic-series-by-charles-wheatstone, accessed on 19 January 2025

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