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Paper, 'On the gas voltaic battery - Experiments made with a view of ascertaining the rationale of its action and its application to eudiometry' by William Robert Grove

Reference number: PT/27/8

Date: 1843

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the gas voltaic battery. —Experiments made with a view of ascertaining the rationale of its action and its application to eudiometry'.

Received by the Royal Society on 27 March 1843. Read 11 May 1843.

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 4, 1843.

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PT/27/8
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1843
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48 pages
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William Robert Grove

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William Robert Grove, Paper, 'On the gas voltaic battery - Experiments made with a view of ascertaining the rationale of its action and its application to eudiometry' by William Robert Grove, 1843, PT/27/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_27_8/paper-on-the-gas-voltaic-battery-experiments-made-with-a-view-of-ascertaining-the-rationale-of-its-action-and-its-application-to-eudiometry-by-william-robert-grove, accessed on 24 June 2025

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