Paper, 'Observations on last weeke's experiment to demonstrate the phlogiston or aether in mars and oil of vitriol by explosion, and how to condense it' by unknown author
Reference number: CLP/11ii/16
Date: 01 February 1730

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Paper describing various experiments that demonstrate the phlogiston, a theorised fire-like element released during combustion, using oil of vitriol [sulphuric acid] and mars, a pigment made from an iron oxide base. The author also provides remarks on these experiments and on similar experiments relating to the phlogiston carried out by Sir Isaac Newton.
Subject: Chemistry
Read to the Royal Society on 15 February 1729 [1730].
- Reference number
- CLP/11ii/16
- Earliest possible date
- 01 February 1730
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- 4 pages
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Paper, 'Observations on last weeke's experiment to demonstrate the phlogiston or aether in mars and oil of vitriol by explosion, and how to condense it' by unknown author, 01 February 1730, CLP/11ii/16, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_11ii_16/paper-observations-on-last-weekes-experiment-to-demonstrate-the-phlogiston-or-aether-in-mars-and-oil-of-vitriol-by-explosion-and-how-to-condense-it-by-unknown-author, accessed on 08 February 2025
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Classified papers: volume 11ii concerning 'Pharmacy, Chemystry'
1723-1731 Reference number: CLP/11ii
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Isaac Newton
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