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Subject: Physiology / Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Contributions to animal chemistry. —Paper V. On the oxidation of ammonia in the human body, with some remarks on nitrification'.

Received by the Royal Society on 18 December 1850. Read 30 June 1851.

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 6, 1854.

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PT/42/2
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1850
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Ink on paper
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24 pages
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Manuscript

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Henry Bence Jones

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Henry Bence Jones, Paper, 'Contributions to animal chemistry. Paper V. On the oxidation of ammonia in the human body, with some remarks on nitrification' by Henry Bence Jones, 1850, PT/42/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_42_2/paper-contributions-to-animal-chemistry-paper-v-on-the-oxidation-of-ammonia-in-the-human-body-with-some-remarks-on-nitrification-by-henry-bence-jones, accessed on 06 December 2025

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