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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An analysis of the waters of the Dead Sea and the river Jordan'.

Communicated by Smithson Tennant. Read 18 June 1807.

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 1, 1832.

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PT/1/20
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1807
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Ink on paper
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24 pages
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Manuscript

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Alexander John Gaspard Marcet

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Alexander John Gaspard Marcet, Paper, 'An analysis of the waters of the Dead Sea and the River Jordan' by Alexander [John Gaspard] Marcet, 1807, PT/1/20, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_1_20/paper-an-analysis-of-the-waters-of-the-dead-sea-and-the-river-jordan-by-alexander-john-gaspard-marcet, accessed on 07 February 2026

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