Paper, 'On some new phaenomena of chemical changes produced by electricity, particularly, the decomposition of the fixed alkalies and the exhibition of the new substances which constitute their bases and on the nature of ammonia' by Humphry Davy
Reference number: PT/2/1
Date: 1807
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Subject: Chemistry
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The Bakerian Lecture, on some new phenomena of chemical changes produced by electricity, particularly the decomposition of the fixed Alkalies, and the exhibition of the new substances which constitute their bases; and on the general nature of alkaline bodies'.
Read 19 November 1807.
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 1, 1832.
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- 1807
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- 132 pages
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Humphry Davy, Paper, 'On some new phaenomena of chemical changes produced by electricity, particularly, the decomposition of the fixed alkalies and the exhibition of the new substances which constitute their bases and on the nature of ammonia' by Humphry Davy, 1807, PT/2/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_2_1/paper-on-some-new-phaenomena-of-chemical-changes-produced-by-electricity-particularly-the-decomposition-of-the-fixed-alkalies-and-the-exhibition-of-the-new-substances-which-constitute-their-bases-and-on-the-nature-of-ammonia-by-humphry-davy, accessed on 11 July 2025
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Date: 31st December 1832
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1800.0152
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Date: 31st December 1808
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1808.0001
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1808
April 1807 - December 1808 Reference number: PT/2
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