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Paper, 'On the action of platina and mercury upon each other' by Richard Chenevix

Reference number: L&P/12/87

Date: 1804

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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'On the action of platina and mercury upon each other'

Read 10 January 1805

Reference number
L&P/12/87
Earliest possible date
1804
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Ink on paper
Page extent
65 pages
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Manuscript

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Richard Chenevix

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Richard Chenevix, Paper, 'On the action of platina and mercury upon each other' by Richard Chenevix, 1804, L&P/12/87, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_12_87/paper-on-the-action-of-platina-and-mercury-upon-each-other-by-richard-chenevix, accessed on 09 May 2026

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