Paper, 'On certain phenomena of voltaic ignition and the decomposition of water into its constituent gases by heat' by W R [William Robert] Grove
Reference number: PT/32/1
Date: 21 August 1846
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42 manuscript pages and three plates showing an eudiometer, a gas battery, and arrangements for various experiments with the eudiometer and battery.
Subject: Chemistry
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The Bakerian Lecture. - On certain phenomena of voltaic ignition and the decomposition of water into its constituent gases by heat'.
Received by the Royal Society on 16 October 1846. Read 19 November 1846.
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/32/1
- Earliest possible date
- 21 August 1846
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- Ink on paper
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- 45 pages
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- Manuscript
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1847
April 1846 - June 1847 Reference number: PT/32
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