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Paper, 'A new method of making nitrous ether' by Peter Woulfe

Reference number: L&P/8/57

Date: 1784

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Contains one plate.

Subject: Chemistry

Read 5 February 1784

Reference number
L&P/8/57
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1784
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Ink on paper and plate
Page extent
6 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Peter Woulfe

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Peter Woulfe, Paper, 'A new method of making nitrous ether' by Peter Woulfe, 1784, L&P/8/57, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_8_57/paper-a-new-method-of-making-nitrous-ether-by-peter-woulfe, accessed on 26 April 2025

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