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Subject: Chemistry/Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'On the conversion of a mixture of dephlogisticated and phlogisticated air into nitrous acid, by the electric spark'

Read 17 April 1788

Reference number
L&P/9/84
Earliest possible date
1788
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
25 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Henry Cavendish

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Henry Cavendish, Paper, 'On the conversion of a mixture of dephlogistocated and phlogisticated air into nitrous acid, by the electric spark' by Henry Cavendish, 1788, L&P/9/84, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_84/paper-on-the-conversion-of-a-mixture-of-dephlogistocated-and-phlogisticated-air-into-nitrous-acid-by-the-electric-spark-by-henry-cavendish, accessed on 13 June 2025

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