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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Experiments to ascertain the state which spirit exists in fermented liquors: with a table exhibiting the relative proportion of pure alcohol contained in several kinds of wine and some other liquors'.

Written by Brande at Arlington Street. Read 31 June 1811.

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/5/17
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01 May 1811
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Ink on paper
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18 pages
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Manuscript

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William Thomas Brande

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William Thomas Brande, Paper, 'Experiments to ascertain the state of spirit in fermented liquors: with a table exhibiting the relative proportion of pure alcohol contained in several kinds of wine and some other liquors' by William Thos [Thomas] Brande, 01 May 1811, PT/5/17, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_5_17/paper-experiments-to-ascertain-the-state-of-spirit-in-fermented-liquors-with-a-table-exhibiting-the-relative-proportion-of-pure-alcohol-contained-in-several-kinds-of-wine-and-some-other-liquors-by-william-thos-thomas-brande, accessed on 10 February 2025

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    Dates: 1802-1865

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