Paper, 'Observations on the decomposition of starch by the action of air and water at common temperatures' by [Nicolas] Theodore de Saussure
Reference number: PT/13/4
Date: 07 October 1818
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English translation of PT/13/3.
Subject: Chemistry
Published in French in Philosophical Transactions as 'Observations sur la décomposition de l'amidon à la température atmosphérique par l'action de l'air et de l’eau'.
Written by de Saussure in Geneva. Communicated by Alexander Marcet. Read 17 December 1818.
Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833.
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- PT/13/4
- Earliest possible date
- 07 October 1818
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- Ink on paper
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- 27 pages
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- Manuscript
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Paper, 'Observations sur la décomposition de l'amidon à la température atmosphérique par l'action de l'air et de l'eau' by [Nicolas] Theodore de Saussure
Creator: Nicolas Theodore de Saussure Reference number: PT/13/3
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October 1818 - July 1819 Reference number: PT/13
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