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Paper, 'On films produced by vaporised metals and their applications to chemical analysis. Preliminary notice' by W N [Walter Noel] Hartley

Reference number: PP/14/7

Date: 1889

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Hartley writes: 'Having recently communicated to the Royal Dublin Society (March 20th) a paper entitled “On the Constitution of the Electric Spark”, I have described a means of obtaining deposits of metals and of metallic oxides, which serves as a very delicate test for some of the metals. It has been considered desirable to devote much further study to the subject, and a method of working has been devised which, so far as it has been applied, appears to be especially useful in the examination of certain metallurgical products, as for instance in the detection and even estimation of the precious metals in copper, lead, and tin, and of certain impurities in copper.'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Chemistry / Metallurgy

Received 22 April 1889 / 26 April 1889.. Read 9 May 1889.

A version of this paper was published in volume 46 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On films produced by vaporised metals and their applications to chemical analysis. —Preliminary notice'.

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PP/14/7
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1889
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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12 pages
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Walter Noel Hartley

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Walter Noel Hartley, Paper, 'On films produced by vaporised metals and their applications to chemical analysis. Preliminary notice' by W N [Walter Noel] Hartley, 1889, PP/14/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_14_7/paper-on-films-produced-by-vaporised-metals-and-their-applications-to-chemical-analysis-preliminary-notice-by-w-n-walter-noel-hartley, accessed on 12 November 2024

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