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Paper, 'An account of rings of prismatic colours formed by electrical explosions on metal surfaces' by Joseph Priestley

Reference number: L&P/5/13

Date: 1768

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of rings consisting of all the prismatic colours, made by electrical explosions on the surface of pieces of metal'

Read 10 March 1768

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L&P/5/13
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1768
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Ink on paper
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8 pages
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Manuscript

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Joseph Priestley

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Joseph Priestley, Paper, 'An account of rings of prismatic colours formed by electrical explosions on metal surfaces' by Joseph Priestley, 1768, L&P/5/13, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_13/paper-an-account-of-rings-of-prismatic-colours-formed-by-electrical-explosions-on-metal-surfaces-by-joseph-priestley, accessed on 03 December 2024

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