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The principal object of this paper is to obtain a theoretical explanation of the instability of viscous liquids, which has been experimentally studied by Professor Osborne Reynolds.

Subject: Physics / Chemistry

Received 10 October 1892. Read 17 November 1892.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 52 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Stability and instability of viscous liquids'.

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AP/69/3
Earliest possible date
1892
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Ink on paper
Page extent
72 pages
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Manuscript

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Alfred Barnard Basset

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Alfred Barnard Basset, Unpublished paper, 'Stability and instability of viscous liquids' by A B [Alfred Barnard] Basset, 1892, AP/69/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_69_3/unpublished-paper-stability-and-instability-of-viscous-liquids-by-a-b-alfred-barnard-basset, accessed on 10 February 2025

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