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Paper, 'An account of experiments made by Mr J McNab in Hudson's Bay, relative to the freezing of nitrous and vitriolic acids' by Henry Cavendish

Reference number: L&P/9/79

Date: 1788

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Subejct: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of experiments made by Mr. John McNab, at Albany Fort, Hudson's Bay, relative to the freezing of nitrous and vitriolic acids'

Read 28 February 1788

Reference number
L&P/9/79
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1788
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Ink on paper
Page extent
25 pages
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Manuscript

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Henry Cavendish

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Henry Cavendish, Paper, 'An account of experiments made by Mr J McNab in Hudson's Bay, relative to the freezing of nitrous and vitriolic acids' by Henry Cavendish, 1788, L&P/9/79, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_79/paper-an-account-of-experiments-made-by-mr-j-mcnab-in-hudsons-bay-relative-to-the-freezing-of-nitrous-and-vitriolic-acids-by-henry-cavendish, accessed on 24 March 2025

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