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Letter, 'Further inquiry as to the mineral elastic spirit in Pouhon water' from William Brownrigg to John Pringle

Reference number: L&P/6/49

Date: 1774

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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Continuation of an experimental inquiry concerning the nature of the mineral elastic spirit, or air, contained in the Pouhon water, and other aciculæ'

Read 28 April 1774

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L&P/6/49
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1774
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14 pages
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William Brownrigg

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William Brownrigg, Letter, 'Further inquiry as to the mineral elastic spirit in Pouhon water' from William Brownrigg to John Pringle, 1774, L&P/6/49, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_6_49/letter-further-inquiry-as-to-the-mineral-elastic-spirit-in-pouhon-water-from-william-brownrigg-to-john-pringle, accessed on 24 March 2025

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