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Paper, 'A new and cheap methoid of preparing potash' by Thomas Percival

Reference number: L&P/7/149

Date: 03 March 1780

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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of a new and cheap method of preparing pot-ash, with observations'

Read 6 April 1780

Reference number
L&P/7/149
Earliest possible date
03 March 1780
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
19 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Thomas Percival

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Thomas Percival, Paper, 'A new and cheap methoid of preparing potash' by Thomas Percival, 03 March 1780, L&P/7/149, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_149/paper-a-new-and-cheap-methoid-of-preparing-potash-by-thomas-percival, accessed on 09 February 2026

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