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Paper, 'The Bakerian Lecture for 1810, On some of the combinations of oxymuriatic gas and oxygene, and on the chemical relations of these principles, to inflammable bodies' by Humphry Davy

Reference number: PT/4/1

Date: 1810

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Subject: Chemistry

Published in the 1811 volume of Philosophical Transactions as 'The Bakerian Lecture. On some of the combinations of oxymuriatic gas and oxygene, and on the chemical relations of these principles, to inflammable bodies'.

Read 15 November 1810.

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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PT/4/1
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1810
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62 pages
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Humphry Davy

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Humphry Davy, Paper, 'The Bakerian Lecture for 1810, On some of the combinations of oxymuriatic gas and oxygene, and on the chemical relations of these principles, to inflammable bodies' by Humphry Davy, 1810, PT/4/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_4_1/paper-the-bakerian-lecture-for-1810-on-some-of-the-combinations-of-oxymuriatic-gas-and-oxygene-and-on-the-chemical-relations-of-these-principles-to-inflammable-bodies-by-humphry-davy, accessed on 10 June 2026

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