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Paper, 'On the variation of the temperature of boiling water' by George Augustus William Shuckburgh

Reference number: L&P/7/99

Date: 1779

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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'On the variation of the temperature of boiling water'

Read 11 March 1779

Reference number
L&P/7/99
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1779
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11 pages
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Manuscript

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George Augustus William Shuckburgh-Evelyn

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George Augustus William Shuckburgh-Evelyn, Paper, 'On the variation of the temperature of boiling water' by George Augustus William Shuckburgh, 1779, L&P/7/99, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_99/paper-on-the-variation-of-the-temperature-of-boiling-water-by-george-augustus-william-shuckburgh, accessed on 05 December 2024

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