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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Objections to the experiments and observations relating to the principle of acidity, the composition of water, and phlogiston, considered; with farther experiments and observations on the same subject'

Read 27 November 1788

Reference number
L&P/9/105
Earliest possible date
1788
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
13 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Joseph Priestley

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Joseph Priestley, Paper, 'Objections to the experiments and observations on the principle of acidity and the composition of water considered' by Joseph Priestley, 1788, L&P/9/105, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_105/paper-objections-to-the-experiments-and-observations-on-the-principle-of-acidity-and-the-composition-of-water-considered-by-joseph-priestley, accessed on 20 January 2025

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