"In repeating some experiments of Ritter's, designed to show that potassium contained hydrogen, Davy was led to the discovery of telluretted hydrogen, the properties of which he describes in some detail. at that time was regarded as a metal, but Davy points out its strong analogies to sulphur, with which element, indeed, it is now classed."
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Humphry Davy, Poet and Philosopher (Thorpe)
Humphry Davy, Poet and Philosopher by , and edited by Sir Henry E. Roscoe, was published in 1896 as part of the Century of Science Series. In this work Thorpe was able "to condense the somewhat diffuse biographies of Humphry Davy, written by Dr. Paris and Dr. John Davy, and to give, in moderate compass, all the information concerning him that we need to remember."1
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