Paper, 'An essay, of the proportion of the fixed salt of one plant, or part of a plant, to the fixed salt of an other: and to all the other principles, in any one plant' by Nehemiah Grew
Reference number: CLP/11i/19
Date: 08 March 1676
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Grew describes his efforts to analyse the constituting or compounding parts of plants through distillation, in order to examine the volatile parts, and calcination, to examine the fixed parts. Grew details his experiments on olibanum [frankincense], asafoetida, gum arabic, euphorbium, myrrh, opium, aloe, and scammony.
Subject: Chemistry
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- CLP/11i/19
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- 08 March 1676
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- 12 pages
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Nehemiah Grew, Paper, 'An essay, of the proportion of the fixed salt of one plant, or part of a plant, to the fixed salt of an other: and to all the other principles, in any one plant' by Nehemiah Grew, 08 March 1676, CLP/11i/19, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_11i_19/paper-an-essay-of-the-proportion-of-the-fixed-salt-of-one-plant-or-part-of-a-plant-to-the-fixed-salt-of-an-other-and-to-all-the-other-principles-in-any-one-plant-by-nehemiah-grew, accessed on 12 February 2026
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