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Paper, 'Further researches in connexion with the metallurgy of bismuth' by Edward Matthey

Reference number: PP/20/27

Date: 1892

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Matthey writes: 'In 1886-87 and in 1890 [see PP/10/12, PP/11/8 and PP/17/4] I submitted papers to the Royal Society bringing under notice facts which had come to my knowledge whilst engaged upon the practical extraction of this beautiful metal from its ores, and in its separation from impurities which are always associated with it when in a crude or unrefined state.'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Metallurgy

Received 21 November 1892 / 24 November 1892. Read 26 January 1892. Communicated by George Gabriel Stokes.

A version of this paper was published in volume 52 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Further researches in connexion with the metallurgy of bismuth'.

Reference number
PP/20/27
Earliest possible date
1892
Physical description
Ink and graphite pencil on paper
Page extent
9 pages
Format
Typescript

Creator name

Edward Matthey

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Edward Matthey, Paper, 'Further researches in connexion with the metallurgy of bismuth' by Edward Matthey, 1892, PP/20/27, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_20_27/paper-further-researches-in-connexion-with-the-metallurgy-of-bismuth-by-edward-matthey, accessed on 10 October 2024

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