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Paper, 'On the effect of surrounding media on voltaic ignition' by W R [William Robert] Grove

Reference number: PT/35/3

Date: 1848

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22 manuscript pages including three figures.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the effect of surrounding media on voltaic ignition'.

Received by the Royal Society on 10 August 1848. Read 14 December 1848.

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/35/3
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1848
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22 pages
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Manuscript

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William Robert Grove

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William Robert Grove, Paper, 'On the effect of surrounding media on voltaic ignition' by W R [William Robert] Grove, 1848, PT/35/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_35_3/paper-on-the-effect-of-surrounding-media-on-voltaic-ignition-by-w-r-william-robert-grove, accessed on 17 April 2025

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