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Paper, 'Account of experiments on a mineral substance from Devonshire' by Humphry Davy

Reference number: L&P/12/92

Date: 1805

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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of some analytical experiments on a mineral production from Devonshire, consisting principally of alumine and water'

Read 28 February 1805

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L&P/12/92
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1805
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Ink on paper
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16 pages
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Manuscript

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Humphry Davy

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Humphry Davy, Paper, 'Account of experiments on a mineral substance from Devonshire' by Humphry Davy, 1805, L&P/12/92, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_12_92/paper-account-of-experiments-on-a-mineral-substance-from-devonshire-by-humphry-davy, accessed on 07 December 2024

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