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Paper, 'Description of the cupro-antimonial sulphuret of lead' by Thomas Andrew Knight

Reference number: L&P/12/66

Date: 1803

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Contains plate.

Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Description of a triple sulpburet, of lead, antomony, and copper, from Cornwall; with some observations upon the various modes of attraction which influence the formation of mineral substances, and upon the different kinds of sulphuret of copper'

Read 22 December 1803

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L&P/12/66
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1803
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Ink on paper and plate
Page extent
35 pages
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Manuscript

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Thomas Andrew Knight

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Thomas Andrew Knight, Paper, 'Description of the cupro-antimonial sulphuret of lead' by Thomas Andrew Knight, 1803, L&P/12/66, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_12_66/paper-description-of-the-cupro-antimonial-sulphuret-of-lead-by-thomas-andrew-knight, accessed on 17 August 2026

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