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Paper, 'On the gas voltaic battery. Voltaic action of phosphorus, sulphur and hydrocarbons' by W R [William Robert] Grove

Reference number: PT/29/13

Date: 30 May 1845

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Subject: Chemistry / Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the gas voltaic battery.—Voltaic action of phosphorus, sulphur and hydrocarbons'.

Written by Grove at the London Institution. Received by the Royal Society on 5 June 1845. Read 19 June 1845.

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 5, 1851.

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PT/29/13
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30 May 1845
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14 pages
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William Robert Grove

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William Robert Grove, Paper, 'On the gas voltaic battery. Voltaic action of phosphorus, sulphur and hydrocarbons' by W R [William Robert] Grove, 30 May 1845, PT/29/13, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_29_13/paper-on-the-gas-voltaic-battery-voltaic-action-of-phosphorus-sulphur-and-hydrocarbons-by-w-r-william-robert-grove, accessed on 24 June 2025

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