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Letter, 'Experiments on phlogiston' from Joseph Priestley to Joseph Banks

Reference number: L&P/8/31

Date: 21 April 1783

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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Experiments relating to phlogiston, and the seeming conversion of water into air'

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L&P/8/31
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21 April 1783
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Ink on paper
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12 pages
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Manuscript

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Joseph Priestley

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Joseph Priestley, Letter, 'Experiments on phlogiston' from Joseph Priestley to Joseph Banks, 21 April 1783, L&P/8/31, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_8_31/letter-experiments-on-phlogiston-from-joseph-priestley-to-joseph-banks, accessed on 07 October 2024

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