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Paper, 'A method of ascertaining very great degrees of heat' by Josiah Wedgwood

Reference number: L&P/7/178

Date: 1780

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Subject: Chemistry

Read 14 December 1780

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L&P/7/178
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1780
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7 pages
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Josiah Wedgwood

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Josiah Wedgwood, Paper, 'A method of ascertaining very great degrees of heat' by Josiah Wedgwood, 1780, L&P/7/178, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_178/paper-a-method-of-ascertaining-very-great-degrees-of-heat-by-josiah-wedgwood, accessed on 10 December 2024

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