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Paper, 'Experiments with fulminating mercury' by Edward Howard

Reference number: L&P/11/129

Date: 1800

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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'On a new fulminating mercury'

Read 13 March 1800

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L&P/11/129
Earliest possible date
1800
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Ink on paper
Page extent
10 pages
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Manuscript

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Edward Charles Howard

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Edward Charles Howard, Paper, 'Experiments with fulminating mercury' by Edward Howard, 1800, L&P/11/129, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_11_129/paper-experiments-with-fulminating-mercury-by-edward-howard, accessed on 13 June 2026

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