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  <dc:title>Unpublished paper, 'The construction of metals' by William Ford Stevenson</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Stevenson presents a series of propositions and theorems: that 'a metal is an earth sui generis; combined with electric matter'; that 'a (metallic) oxide is the same earth deprived of such electric matter, and combined instead with oxygen'; that this electric matter is found in, and forms part of, hydrogen gas; and that water 'cannot be the result of a combination of hydrogen and oxygen'.

Subject: Chemistry

Written by Stevenson at the Royal York Hotel, Sidmouth [Devon, England].</dc:description>
  <dc:date>11 May 1850</dc:date>
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