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Two copies of the manuscript.

Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Some experiments on a solid compound of iodine and oxygene, and on its chemical agencies'.

Written by Davy in Rome. Read 20 April 1815.

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 2, 1833.

Reference number
PT/9/12
Earliest possible date
12 February 1815
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Ink on paper
Page extent
21 pages
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Manuscript

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Humphry Davy

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Humphry Davy, Paper, 'Some experiments on a solid compound of iodine and oxygene and on its chemical agencies' by Sir H [Humphry] Davy, 12 February 1815, PT/9/12, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_9_12/paper-some-experiments-on-a-solid-compound-of-iodine-and-oxygene-and-on-its-chemical-agencies-by-sir-h-humphry-davy, accessed on 23 June 2025

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