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Paper, 'On the existence of silver in sea-water' by Frederick Field

Reference number: AP/39/2

Date: 16 August 1856

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Field describes a method of identifying silver in sea-water by passing hydrogen sulphide through large quantities of water and by fusing the salts obtained by evaporating with litharge [lead oxide] and subsequent cupellation.

Marked on front as 'For the Proceedings'.

Subject: Chemistry / Metallurgy

Received 23 October 1856. Read 11 December 1856. Communicated by Michael Faraday.

Written by Field in Coquimbo, Chile.

This paper was published in full in volume 8 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the existence of silver in sea-water'.

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AP/39/2
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16 August 1856
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Frederick Field

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Frederick Field, Paper, 'On the existence of silver in sea-water' by Frederick Field, 16 August 1856, AP/39/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_39_2/paper-on-the-existence-of-silver-in-sea-water-by-frederick-field, accessed on 05 December 2024

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