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Paper, 'A new method of assaying copper ores' by George Fordyce

Reference number: L&P/7/126

Date: 1779

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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A new method of assaying copper ores'

Read 9 December 1779

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L&P/7/126
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1779
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Ink on paper
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22 pages
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Manuscript

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George Fordyce

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George Fordyce, Paper, 'A new method of assaying copper ores' by George Fordyce, 1779, L&P/7/126, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_126/paper-a-new-method-of-assaying-copper-ores-by-george-fordyce, accessed on 18 June 2025

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