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Details of how to make phosophorus using ox's brain and rock allum
Read to the Royal Society on 23 November 1721

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RBO/11/39
Earliest possible date
1721
Page extent
1 page
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Manuscript

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'Ad Phosphorum ex Cerebro conficiendum' by Dr Steighertal, 1721, RBO/11/39, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_11_39/ad-phosphorum-ex-cerebro-conficiendum-by-dr-steighertal, accessed on 18 February 2025

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