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Paper, 'Different properties of solar radiation producing or preventing a deposit of mercury on silver plates coated with iodine or its compounds with bromine or chlorine, modified by coloured glass media and the vapours of the atmosphere' by A [Antoine Jean Francois] Claudet

Reference number: PT/32/16

Date: 1847

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On different properties of solar radiation producing or preventing a deposit of mercury on silver plates coated with iodine, or compounds with bromine or chlorine, modified by coloured glass media and the vapours of the atmosphere'.

Communicated by Sir David Brewster. Received by the Royal Society on 10 June 1847. Read 17 June 1847.

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/32/16
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1847
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Antoine Jean Francois Claudet

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Antoine Jean Francois Claudet, Paper, 'Different properties of solar radiation producing or preventing a deposit of mercury on silver plates coated with iodine or its compounds with bromine or chlorine, modified by coloured glass media and the vapours of the atmosphere' by A [Antoine Jean Francois] Claudet, 1847, PT/32/16, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_32_16/paper-different-properties-of-solar-radiation-producing-or-preventing-a-deposit-of-mercury-on-silver-plates-coated-with-iodine-or-its-compounds-with-bromine-or-chlorine-modified-by-coloured-glass-media-and-the-vapours-of-the-atmosphere-by-a-antoine-jean-francois-claudet, accessed on 28 April 2025

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