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Paper, 'Researches on the muriatic acid in its different states, with some experiments on sulphur and phosphorus' by H [Humphry] Davy

Reference number: PT/4/14

Date: 1810

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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Researches on the oxymuriatic acid, its nature and combinations; and on the elements of the muriatic acid. With some experiments on sulphur and phosphorus, made in the laboratory of the Royal Institution'.

Read 12 July 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/4/14
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1810
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66 pages
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Humphry Davy

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Humphry Davy, Paper, 'Researches on the muriatic acid in its different states, with some experiments on sulphur and phosphorus' by H [Humphry] Davy, 1810, PT/4/14, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_4_14/paper-researches-on-the-muriatic-acid-in-its-different-states-with-some-experiments-on-sulphur-and-phosphorus-by-h-humphry-davy, accessed on 21 May 2026

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