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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Account of a series of experiments, undertaken with the view of decomposing the muriatic acid'

Read 27 February 1800

Reference number
L&P/11/121
Earliest possible date
1800
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
23 pages
Format
Manuscript

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William Henry

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William Henry, Paper, 'Experiments made with a view of decomposing the muriatic acid' by William Henry, 1800, L&P/11/121, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_11_121/paper-experiments-made-with-a-view-of-decomposing-the-muriatic-acid-by-william-henry, accessed on 21 January 2026

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