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Paper, 'Of crystallizations in glass' by James Keir

Reference number: L&P/6/182

Date: 1776

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Subejct: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'On the crystallizations observed on glass.'

Read 23 May 1776

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L&P/6/182
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1776
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Ink on paper
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20 pages
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Manuscript

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James Keir

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James Keir, Paper, 'Of crystallizations in glass' by James Keir, 1776, L&P/6/182, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_6_182/paper-of-crystallizations-in-glass-by-james-keir, accessed on 11 July 2025

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