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Contains one plate.

Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Account of a new kind of inflammable air or gass, which can be made in a moment without apparatus, and is as fit for explosion as other inflammable gasses in use for that purpose; together with a new theory of gun-powder'

Read 25 March 1779

Reference number
L&P/7/100
Earliest possible date
1779
Physical description
Ink on paper and plate
Page extent
27 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

John Ingenhousz

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John Ingenhousz, Paper, 'Of a new kind of inflammable air' by John Ingenhousz, 1779, L&P/7/100, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_100/paper-of-a-new-kind-of-inflammable-air-by-john-ingenhousz, accessed on 11 July 2025

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