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Paper recording results of various trials on the weights of various liquids including water, turpentine oil, vitriol oil, and wine, and gunpowder. Mentions a petrefaction [petrifaction] by Mr [Nicolaus] Witsen.

Subject: Weaponry / Chemistry

Read to the Royal Society on 22 December 1697

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CLP/6/56
Earliest possible date
1697
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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Paper, regarding the weights of liquids and gunpowder by unknown author, 1697, CLP/6/56, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_6_56/paper-regarding-the-weights-of-liquids-and-gunpowder-by-unknown-author, accessed on 11 April 2026

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