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Paper, 'On the decomposition of fixed air' by Smithson Tennant

Reference number: L&P/9/194

Date: 1791

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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'On the decomposition of fixed air'

Read 31 March 1791

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L&P/9/194
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1791
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Ink on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Smithson Tennant

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Smithson Tennant, Paper, 'On the decomposition of fixed air' by Smithson Tennant, 1791, L&P/9/194, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_194/paper-on-the-decomposition-of-fixed-air-by-smithson-tennant, accessed on 19 March 2025

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