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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Farther experiments on the combustion of explosive mixtures confined by wire-gauze, with some observations on flame'.

Read 25 January 1816.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833.

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PT/10/5
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1816
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Ink on paper
Page extent
5 pages
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Manuscript

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Humphry Davy

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Humphry Davy, Paper, 'Further experiments on the combustion of explosive mixtures confined by wire gauze, with some observations on flame' by Sir H [Humphry] Davy, 1816, PT/10/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_10_5/paper-further-experiments-on-the-combustion-of-explosive-mixtures-confined-by-wire-gauze-with-some-observations-on-flame-by-sir-h-humphry-davy, accessed on 10 July 2025

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