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Paper, 'On the action of nitre upon gold and platina' by Smithson Tennant

Reference number: L&P/11/25

Date: 1796

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Subejct: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'On the action of nitre upon gold and platina'

Read 23 March 1797

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L&P/11/25
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1796
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Ink on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Smithson Tennant

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Smithson Tennant, Paper, 'On the action of nitre upon gold and platina' by Smithson Tennant, 1796, L&P/11/25, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_11_25/paper-on-the-action-of-nitre-upon-gold-and-platina-by-smithson-tennant, accessed on 10 November 2025

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