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Illustrations for this paper have been separated from the manuscript and are found at PT/73/8/3.

Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The Bakerian Lecture. On the composition and analysis of the inflammable gaseous compounds resulting from the destructive distillation of coal and oil, with some remarks on their relative heating and illuminating powers'.

Read 18 November 1819.

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/14/2
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1819
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Ink on paper
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35 pages
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Manuscript

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William Thomas Brande

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William Thomas Brande, Paper, 'The Bakerian Lecture. On the composition and analysis of the inflammable gaseous compounds resulting from the destructive distillation of coal and oil, with some remarks on their relative heating and illuminating powers' by William Thomas Brande, 1819, PT/14/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_14_2/paper-the-bakerian-lecture-on-the-composition-and-analysis-of-the-inflammable-gaseous-compounds-resulting-from-the-destructive-distillation-of-coal-and-oil-with-some-remarks-on-their-relative-heating-and-illuminating-powers-by-william-thomas-brande, accessed on 11 February 2025

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