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Paper, 'Answer to Mr Cavendish's reply' by Richard Kirwan

Reference number: L&P/8/64

Date: 1784

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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Reply to Mr. Cavendish's answer'

Read 18 March 1784

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L&P/8/64
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1784
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Richard Kirwan

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Richard Kirwan, Paper, 'Answer to Mr Cavendish's reply' by Richard Kirwan, 1784, L&P/8/64, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_8_64/paper-answer-to-mr-cavendishs-reply-by-richard-kirwan, accessed on 13 October 2024

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