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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the action of acids on the salts usually called hyperoxy-muriates, and on the gases produced from them'.

Written by Davy in Rome. Read 4 May 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.

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PT/9/13
Earliest possible date
15 February 1815
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Ink on paper
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6 pages
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Manuscript

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Humphry Davy

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Humphry Davy, Paper, 'On the action of acids on the salts usually called hyper-oxy-muriates and on the gases produced from them' by Sir H [Humphry] Davy, 15 February 1815, PT/9/13, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_9_13/paper-on-the-action-of-acids-on-the-salts-usually-called-hyper-oxy-muriates-and-on-the-gases-produced-from-them-by-sir-h-humphry-davy, accessed on 21 June 2025

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