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RefNoPT/32/1
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TitlePaper, 'On certain phenomena of voltaic ignition and the decomposition of water into its constituent gases by heat' by W R [William Robert] Grove
Date21 August 1846
Description42 manuscript pages and three plates showing an eudiometer, a gas battery, and arrangements for various experiments with the eudiometer and battery.

Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The Bakerian Lecture. - On certain phenomena of voltaic ignition and the decomposition of water into its constituent gases by heat'.

Received by the Royal Society on 16 October 1846. Read 19 November 1846.

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 5, 1851.
Extent45p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1847.0001
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CodePersonNameDates
NA7589Grove; Sir; William Robert (1811 - 1896)1811 - 1896
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