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Clowes writes: 'Specimens of remarkable deposits which have formed in the water-boxes of coal-mines in the neighbourhood of Newcastle-upon-Tyne have been for many years in the possession of the Museum of the Durham College of Science. A rough analysis has been published by J. T. Dunn (‘Transactions of the Newcastle Chemical Society,’ vol. 3, p. 261) of an apparently similar deposit, which was formed daring the autumn of 1876 in the Jane Pit at Walker. During this short period the sectional area of the box had been reduced by the deposit from seven and a half square inches to less than half a square inch, and had been in places almost completely closed.'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Chemistry

Received 6 June 1889. Read 20 June 1889. Communicated by [Henry Edward] Armstrong.

A version of this paper was published in volume 46 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Deposits of barium sulphate from mine-water'.

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PP/14/30
Earliest possible date
1889
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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Frank Clowes

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Frank Clowes, Paper, 'Deposits of barium sulphate from mine-water' by Frank Clowes, 1889, PP/14/30, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_14_30/paper-deposits-of-barium-sulphate-from-mine-water-by-frank-clowes, accessed on 08 February 2025

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