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Paper, 'Photochemical researches. 3rd communication' by R [Robert Wilhelm] Bunsen and H E [Henry Enfield] Roscoe

Reference number: PT/58/15

Date: 20 May 1857

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39 manuscript pages including two figures and one separate plate.

Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Photo-chemical researches.—Part III. Optical and chemical extinction of the chemical rays'.

Written by Bunsen and Roscoe in London. Communicated by Professor [George Gabriel] Stokes. Received by the Royal Society on 20 May 1857. Read 18 June 1857.

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 8, 1857.

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PT/58/15
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20 May 1857
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Ink on paper
Page extent
40 pages
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Manuscript

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Robert Wilhelm Bunsen

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Henry Enfield Roscoe

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Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, Henry Enfield Roscoe, Paper, 'Photochemical researches. 3rd communication' by R [Robert Wilhelm] Bunsen and H E [Henry Enfield] Roscoe, 20 May 1857, PT/58/15, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_58_15/paper-photochemical-researches-3rd-communication-by-r-robert-wilhelm-bunsen-and-h-e-henry-enfield-roscoe, accessed on 13 December 2024

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