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Six manuscript pages and one plate showing an experiment using an air pump, a thermometer, and sulphurate of carbon.

A note at top of paper reads that 50 private copies should be sent to Dr Marcet at 23 Russell Square.

Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Experiments on the production of cold by the evaporation of the sulphuret of carbon'.

Read 8 July 1813.

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/7/29
Earliest possible date
1813
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
7 pages
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Manuscript

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Alexander John Gaspard Marcet

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Alexander John Gaspard Marcet, Paper, 'Experiments on the production of cold by the evaporation of the sulphuret of carbon' by Alexander Marcet, 1813, PT/7/29, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_7_29/paper-experiments-on-the-production-of-cold-by-the-evaporation-of-the-sulphuret-of-carbon-by-alexander-marcet, accessed on 08 February 2026

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