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Babington aims to make known certain powers of attraction and repulsion which are possessed by soluble substances in relation to their solvent, and which, in the case of water, are measured by the amount of loss, on spontaneous evaporation, in the weight of solutions of different salts and other substances, as compared with the loss of weight in water.

Subject: Chemistry

Received 7 June 1859.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 10 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On spontaneous evaporation'.

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AP/42/3
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1859
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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44 pages
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Manuscript

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Benjamin Guy Babington

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Benjamin Guy Babington, Unpublished paper, 'On spontaneous evaporation' by Benjamin Guy Babington, 1859, AP/42/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_42_3/unpublished-paper-on-spontaneous-evaporation-by-benjamin-guy-babington, accessed on 16 February 2025

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