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Paper, 'A numerical table of elective attractions; with remarks on sequences of double decompositions' by Thomas Young

Reference number: PT/3/6

Date: 1809

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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A numerical table of elective attractions; with remarks on the sequences of double decompositions'.

Read 9 February 1809.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 1, 1832.

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PT/3/6
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1809
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14 pages
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Thomas Young

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Thomas Young, Paper, 'A numerical table of elective attractions; with remarks on sequences of double decompositions' by Thomas Young, 1809, PT/3/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_3_6/paper-a-numerical-table-of-elective-attractions-with-remarks-on-sequences-of-double-decompositions-by-thomas-young, accessed on 14 January 2026

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