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Paper, 'On the absorption and radiation of heat by gases and vapours and on the physical connexion of radiation, absorption and conduction' by John Tyndall

Reference number: PT/63/1

Date: 1861

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The Bakerian Lecture.—On the absorption and radiation of heat by gases and vapours, and on the physical connexion of radiation, absorption, and conduction'.

Received by the Royal Society on 10 January 1861. Read 7 February 1861.

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 11, 1862.

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PT/63/1
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1861
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99 pages
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John Tyndall

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John Tyndall, Paper, 'On the absorption and radiation of heat by gases and vapours and on the physical connexion of radiation, absorption and conduction' by John Tyndall, 1861, PT/63/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_63_1/paper-on-the-absorption-and-radiation-of-heat-by-gases-and-vapours-and-on-the-physical-connexion-of-radiation-absorption-and-conduction-by-john-tyndall, accessed on 14 October 2024

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