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Paper, 'Of lateral explosions in an electrical discharge' by Joseph Priestley

Reference number: L&P/5/167

Date: 22 February 1770

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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An investigation of the lateral explosion, and of the electricity communicated to the electrical circuit, in a discharge'

Read 29 March 1770

Reference number
L&P/5/167
Earliest possible date
22 February 1770
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
23 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Joseph Priestley

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Joseph Priestley, Paper, 'Of lateral explosions in an electrical discharge' by Joseph Priestley, 22 February 1770, L&P/5/167, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_167/paper-of-lateral-explosions-in-an-electrical-discharge-by-joseph-priestley, accessed on 15 September 2024

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