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Paper, 'Experiments and observations on the dissolution of metals in acids, and the precipitations; with an account of a new compound acid menstrum' by James Keir

Reference number: L&P/9/171

Date: 1790

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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Experiments and observations on the dissolution of metals in acids, and their precipitations; with an account of a new compound acid menstruum, useful in some technical operations of parting metals'

Read 20 May 1790

Reference number
L&P/9/171
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1790
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43 pages
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Manuscript

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James Keir

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James Keir, Paper, 'Experiments and observations on the dissolution of metals in acids, and the precipitations; with an account of a new compound acid menstrum' by James Keir, 1790, L&P/9/171, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_171/paper-experiments-and-observations-on-the-dissolution-of-metals-in-acids-and-the-precipitations-with-an-account-of-a-new-compound-acid-menstrum-by-james-keir, accessed on 12 March 2026

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