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Paper, 'An account of da Saluce's 'Memoire sur le fluide elastique de la poudre a canon [On the elastic fluid of gunpowder]'' by John Ellicott

Reference number: L&P/4/151

Date: 1763

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Subject: Chemistry

Read 24 March 1763

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L&P/4/151
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1763
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John Ellicott

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John Ellicott, Paper, 'An account of da Saluce's 'Memoire sur le fluide elastique de la poudre a canon [On the elastic fluid of gunpowder]'' by John Ellicott, 1763, L&P/4/151, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_151/paper-an-account-of-da-saluces-memoire-sur-le-fluide-elastique-de-la-poudre-a-canon-on-the-elastic-fluid-of-gunpowder-by-john-ellicott, accessed on 07 October 2026

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