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Desmasters describes experiments to show the expansion of water by freezing using a tube with quarter of an inch diameter.

Subject: Thermodynamics / Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Further experiments about freezing'

Read to the Royal Society on 8 February 1684. Communicated by William Musgrave

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CLP/4i/44
Earliest possible date
08 February 1684
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Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
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Manuscript

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Paper, 'Further experiments about freezing' by Mr Desmasters, 08 February 1684, CLP/4i/44, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_4i_44/paper-further-experiments-about-freezing-by-mr-desmasters, accessed on 19 April 2025

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