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Paper, 'Tables for reducing the quantities by weight, in any mixture of pure spirit add water, to those by measure' by George Gilpin

Reference number: L&P/10/94

Date: 1794

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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Trancsactions, as 'Tables for reducing the quantities by weight, in any mix­ture of pure spirit and water, to those by measure; and for determining the proportion, by measure, of each of the two substances in such mixtures'

Read 19 June 1794

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L&P/10/94
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1794
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110 pages
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Manuscript

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Paper, 'Tables for reducing the quantities by weight, in any mixture of pure spirit add water, to those by measure' by George Gilpin, 1794, L&P/10/94, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_10_94/paper-tables-for-reducing-the-quantities-by-weight-in-any-mixture-of-pure-spirit-add-water-to-those-by-measure-by-george-gilpin, accessed on 18 August 2026

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