II. The Bakerian Lecture for 1809. On some new electrochemical researches, on various objects, particularly the metallic bodies, from the alkalies, and earths, and on some combinations of hydrogene

Abstract

I Have employed no inconsiderable portion of the time that has elapsed, since the last session of the Royal Society, in pursuing the train of experimental enquiries, on the application of Electricity to Chemistry, the commencement and progress of which, this learned Body has done me the honour to publish in their Transactions. In this communication I shall, as formerly, state the results. I hope they will be found to lead to some views, and applications, not unconnected with the objects of the Bakerian lecture: and though many of them are far from having attained that precision, and distinctness, which I could wish, yet still I flatter myself, that they will afford elucidations of some important and abstruse departments of chemistry, and tend to assist the progress of philosophical truth.