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Graph, dependence of chemical illumination on barometric pressure by unknown artist

Reference number: PT/75/8/31

Date: 1859

Description

Plate 47, figure 17 (labelled here as figure 13) containing a graph illustrating the dependence of chemical illumination on barometric pressure. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.

Subject: Physics / Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Photo-chemical researches.—Part IV' by Robert Wilhelm Bunsen and Henry Enfield Roscoe.

Received and read by the Royal Society on 26 May 1859.

Reference number
PT/75/8/31
Earliest possible date
1859
Physical description
Ink on graph paper
Page extent
1 page
Format
Diagram

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Robert Wilhelm Bunsen

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Henry Enfield Roscoe

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Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, Henry Enfield Roscoe, Graph, dependence of chemical illumination on barometric pressure by unknown artist, 1859, PT/75/8/31, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_75_8_31/graph-dependence-of-chemical-illumination-on-barometric-pressure-by-unknown-artist, accessed on 15 October 2024

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