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Paper, 'Description of experiments on the phlogistication of spirit of nitre by heat' by Joseph Priestley

Reference number: L&P/9/122

Date: 1789

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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Experiments on the phlogistication of spirit of nitre'

Read 26 March 1789

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L&P/9/122
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1789
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16 pages
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Joseph Priestley

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Joseph Priestley, Paper, 'Description of experiments on the phlogistication of spirit of nitre by heat' by Joseph Priestley, 1789, L&P/9/122, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_122/paper-description-of-experiments-on-the-phlogistication-of-spirit-of-nitre-by-heat-by-joseph-priestley, accessed on 12 August 2026

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