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Paper, 'Observations on the change of some of the proximate principles of vegetables into Bitumen' by Charles Hatchett

Reference number: L&P/12/81

Date: 1804

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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Observations on the change of some of the proximate principles of vegetables into bitumen; with analytical experiments on a peculiar substance which is found with the bovey coal'

Read 14 June 1804

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L&P/12/81
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1804
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Ink on paper
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39 pages
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Manuscript

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Charles Hatchett

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Charles Hatchett, Paper, 'Observations on the change of some of the proximate principles of vegetables into Bitumen' by Charles Hatchett, 1804, L&P/12/81, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_12_81/paper-observations-on-the-change-of-some-of-the-proximate-principles-of-vegetables-into-bitumen-by-charles-hatchett, accessed on 07 March 2026

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