The decomposition of the fixed alkalies and alkaline earths / by Humphry Davy.

  • Davy Humphry, Sir, 1778-1829.
Date:
1894
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    THE BAKERIAN LECTURE, ON SOME NEW PHENOMENA OF CHEMICAL CHANGES PRODUCED BY ELECTRI- CITY, PARTICULARLY THE DECOM- POSITION OF THE FIXED ALKALIES, AND THE EXHIBITION OF THE NEW SUBSTANCES WHICH CONSTI- TUTE THEIR BASES ; AND ON THE GENERAL NATURE OF ALKALINE BODIES* Read Nov. 19, 1807. M«M I. Introduction. IN the Bakerian Lecture which I had the honour of presenting to the Royal Society last year, I described a number of decompositions and chemical changes pro- duced in substances of known composition by electricity, and I ventured to conclude from the general principles on which the phenomena were capable of being explained, that the new methods of investigation promised to lead to a more intimate knowledge than had hitherto been obtained, concerning the true elements of bodies. This conjecture, then sanctioned only by strong analogies, I am now happy to be able to support by some conclusive facts. In the course of a laborious ex- perimental application of the powers of electro-chemical analysis, to bodies which have appeared simple when * [From Philosophical Transactions for 1808, vol. 98, pp. 1-44.]
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