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Paper, 'Researches on explosives. Preliminary note' by Andrew Noble

Reference number: PP/24/16

Date: 1894

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Noble writes: 'The researches on which I, in conjunction with Sir P. Abel, have been engaged for very many years, have had their scope so altered and extended by the rapid advances which have been made in the science of explosives, that we have been unable to lay before the Society the results of the many hundreds of experiments under varied conditions which I have carried out.'

Annotations in pencil and ink. Includes three diagrams of pressure and velocity curves.

Subject: Chemistry

Received 13 June 1894 / 15 June 1894. Read 21 June 1894.

A version of this paper was published in volume 56 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Researches on explosives. preliminary note'.

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PP/24/16
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1894
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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22 pages
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Andrew Noble, Paper, 'Researches on explosives. Preliminary note' by Andrew Noble, 1894, PP/24/16, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_24_16/paper-researches-on-explosives-preliminary-note-by-andrew-noble, accessed on 21 March 2025

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