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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Experiments made with the view of decompounding fixed air, or carbonic acid'

Read 24 May 1792

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L&P/10/16
Earliest possible date
1792
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
31 pages
Format
Manuscript

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George Pearson

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George Pearson, Paper, 'Experiments made with the view of decompounding fixed air or carbonic acid' by George Pearson, 1792, L&P/10/16, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_10_16/paper-experiments-made-with-the-view-of-decompounding-fixed-air-or-carbonic-acid-by-george-pearson, accessed on 07 March 2026

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