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Paper, 'Experiments on factitious air' by Henry Cavendish

Reference number: L&P/4/334

Date: 1766

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Contains four pages of figures.

Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Three papers, containing experiments on factitious air'

Read 6 November 1766

Reference number
L&P/4/334
Earliest possible date
1766
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
33 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Henry Cavendish

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Henry Cavendish, Paper, 'Experiments on factitious air' by Henry Cavendish, 1766, L&P/4/334, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_334/paper-experiments-on-factitious-air-by-henry-cavendish, accessed on 15 October 2024

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