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Paper, 'Experiments made to determine the positive and relative quantities of moisture absorbed from the atmosphere by various substances under cimilar circumstances' by Benjamin Thompson

Reference number: L&P/9/36

Date: 1787

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Experiments made to determine the positive and relative quantities of moisture absorbed from the atmosphere by various substances, under similar circumstances'

Read 22 March 1787

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L&P/9/36
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1787
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8 pages
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Benjamin Thompson

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Benjamin Thompson, Paper, 'Experiments made to determine the positive and relative quantities of moisture absorbed from the atmosphere by various substances under cimilar circumstances' by Benjamin Thompson, 1787, L&P/9/36, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_36/paper-experiments-made-to-determine-the-positive-and-relative-quantities-of-moisture-absorbed-from-the-atmosphere-by-various-substances-under-cimilar-circumstances-by-benjamin-thompson, accessed on 15 June 2025

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