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Paper, 'Specific gravities taken at different degrees of heat' by Richard Kirwan

Reference number: L&P/8/131

Date: 1785

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Remarks on specific gravities taken at different degrees of heat, and an easy method of reducing them to a common standard'

Read 17 February 1785

Reference number
L&P/8/131
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1785
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Richard Kirwan

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Richard Kirwan, Paper, 'Specific gravities taken at different degrees of heat' by Richard Kirwan, 1785, L&P/8/131, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_8_131/paper-specific-gravities-taken-at-different-degrees-of-heat-by-richard-kirwan, accessed on 23 April 2025

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