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Paper regarding experiments on extracting salt from water through distillation. Allen carried out these purges on waters from Chigwell [Essex, England], Barnet [London], and North Hall [West Sussex, England].

Subject: Chemistry

Read to the Royal Society on 10 April 1679.

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CLP/11i/20
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1679
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Ink on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Thomas Allen

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Thomas Allen, Paper, regarding purging water by Dr [Thomas] Allen, 1679, CLP/11i/20, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_11i_20/paper-regarding-purging-water-by-dr-thomas-allen, accessed on 09 February 2025

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