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Paper, 'On the value in absolute alcohol of spirits of different specific gravities' by Geo [George] Fownes

Reference number: PT/32/15

Date: 07 June 1847

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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the value in absolute alcohol of spirits of different specific gravities'.

Written by Fownes at University College [London]. Received by the Royal Society on 7 June 1847. Read 17 June 1847.

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 5, 1851.

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PT/32/15
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07 June 1847
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7 pages
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George Fownes

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George Fownes, Paper, 'On the value in absolute alcohol of spirits of different specific gravities' by Geo [George] Fownes, 07 June 1847, PT/32/15, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_32_15/paper-on-the-value-in-absolute-alcohol-of-spirits-of-different-specific-gravities-by-geo-george-fownes, accessed on 09 May 2026

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