DAVY, HUMPHRY.

On a Combination of Oxymuriatic Gas and Oxygene Gas. Read February 21, 1811.

(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1811). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1811 - Part I. Pp. 155-162. Fine and clean

First printing of an importent paper in chemistry. Davy's famous papers on the chlorine theory - he proved that chlorine is an element - from 1810 a. 1811 gave rise to a controversy. In the offered paper Davy gives further experimental evidences for his thoey of chlorine and its mixtures.

Order-nr.: 42921