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Paper, 'On the proportions of phlogisticated and inflammable air in volatile alkali' by William Austin

Reference number: L&P/9/92

Date: 1788

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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Experiments on the formation of volatile alkali, and on the affinities of the phlogisticated and light inflammable airs'

Read 29 May 1788

Reference number
L&P/9/92
Earliest possible date
1788
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'On the proportions of phlogisticated and inflammable air in volatile alkali' by William Austin, 1788, L&P/9/92, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_92/paper-on-the-proportions-of-phlogisticated-and-inflammable-air-in-volatile-alkali-by-william-austin, accessed on 21 April 2026

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