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Paper, 'On some combinations of platinum' by Edmund Davy

Reference number: PT/14/8

Date: 01 September 1819

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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On some combinations of platinum'.

Written by Davy at the [Royal] Cork Institution. Communicated by F Babington. Read 17 February 1820.

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/14/8
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01 September 1819
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Ink on paper
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16 pages
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Manuscript

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Edmund Davy

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Edmund Davy, Paper, 'On some combinations of platinum' by Edmund Davy, 01 September 1819, PT/14/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_14_8/paper-on-some-combinations-of-platinum-by-edmund-davy, accessed on 19 June 2025

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