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Paper, 'On a combination of oxymuriatic gas and oxygene' by H [Humphry] Davy

Reference number: PT/5/8

Date: 1811

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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On a combination of oxymuriatic gas and oxygene gas'.

Read 21 February 1811.

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/5/8
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1811
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27 pages
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Manuscript

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Humphry Davy

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Humphry Davy, Paper, 'On a combination of oxymuriatic gas and oxygene' by H [Humphry] Davy, 1811, PT/5/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_5_8/paper-on-a-combination-of-oxymuriatic-gas-and-oxygene-by-h-humphry-davy, accessed on 20 March 2025

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