The decomposition of the fixed alkalies and alkaline earths / by Humphry Davy.
- Davy Humphry, Sir, 1778-1829.
- Date:
- 1894
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The decomposition of the fixed alkalies and alkaline earths / by Humphry Davy. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![agents may have operated in the formation of rocks and earths which have not hitherto been suspected to exist. It would be easy to pursue the speculative part of this enquiry to a great extent, but I shall refrain from so occupying the time of the Society, as the tenour. of my object in this lecture has not been to state hypotheses, but to bring forward a new series of facts. ELECTRO-CHEMICAL RESEARCHES, ON THE DECOMPOSITION OF THE EARTHS ; WITH OBSERVATIONS ON THE METALS OBTAINED FROM THE ALKALINE EARTHS, AND ON THE AMALGAM PROCURED FROM AM- MONIA.* Read June 2,0th 1808. M«M III. Attempts to procure the Metals of the alkaline Earths ; and on their Properties. To procure quantities of amalgams sufficient for distil- lation, I combined the methods I had before employed, with those of M. M. Berzelius and Pontin. The earths were slightly moistened, and mixed with one-third of red oxide of mercury, the mixture was placed on a plate of platina, a cavity was made in the upper part of it to receive a globule of mercury, of from fifty to 60 * [From Philosophical Transactions for 1808, vol. 98, pp. 333-370; part reprinted pp. 341-346.] ♦](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21710028_0052.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
