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Paper, 'On the conversion of animal substances into a fatty matter much resembling Spermacet' by George Smith Gibbes

Reference number: L&P/10/107

Date: 1795

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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'On the conversion of animal substances into a fatty matter much resembling Spermaceti'

Read 5 March 1795

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L&P/10/107
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1795
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George Smith Gibbes, Paper, 'On the conversion of animal substances into a fatty matter much resembling Spermacet' by George Smith Gibbes, 1795, L&P/10/107, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_10_107/paper-on-the-conversion-of-animal-substances-into-a-fatty-matter-much-resembling-spermacet-by-george-smith-gibbes, accessed on 25 May 2025

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