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Includes several fold-out data tables.

Subject: Chemistry / Geology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the composition of sea-water in the different parts of the ocean'.

Communicated by Sir Edward Sabine. Received by the Royal Society on 28 July 1864. Read 17 November 1864.

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PT/72/3
Earliest possible date
1864
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
94 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Georg Johan Forchhammer

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Georg Johan Forchhammer, Paper, 'On the composition of seawater in the different parts of the ocean' by Georg Forchhammer, 1864, PT/72/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_72_3/paper-on-the-composition-of-seawater-in-the-different-parts-of-the-ocean-by-georg-forchhammer, accessed on 11 February 2025

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    Dates: 1802-1865

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