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Letter, 'Observations on basalt and on the transition from the vitreous to the stony texture' from Gregory Watt to Charles Greville

Reference number: L&P/12/74

Date: 10 April 1804

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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Observations on basalt, and on the transition from the vitreous to the stony texture, which occurs in the gradual refrigeration of melted basalt; with some geological remarks'

Read 10 May 1804

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L&P/12/74
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10 April 1804
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Ink on paper
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44 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter, 'Observations on basalt and on the transition from the vitreous to the stony texture' from Gregory Watt to Charles Greville, 10 April 1804, L&P/12/74, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_12_74/letter-observations-on-basalt-and-on-the-transition-from-the-vitreous-to-the-stony-texture-from-gregory-watt-to-charles-greville, accessed on 18 February 2026

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