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Letter, 'Supposed effect of of boiling water on its subsequent freezing' from Joseph Black to John Pringle

Reference number: L&P/6/89

Date: 11 February 1775

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'The supposed effect of boiling upon water, in disposing it to freeze more readily, ascertained by experiments. By Joseph Black, M.D. Professor of Chemistry at Edinburgh, in a letter to Sir John Pringle, Bart. F. R. S'

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L&P/6/89
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11 February 1775
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8 pages
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Letter, 'Supposed effect of of boiling water on its subsequent freezing' from Joseph Black to John Pringle, 11 February 1775, L&P/6/89, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_6_89/letter-supposed-effect-of-of-boiling-water-on-its-subsequent-freezing-from-joseph-black-to-john-pringle, accessed on 15 July 2026

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