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Henshaw describes how to perform 14 different experiments relating to the expansion of water during the freezing process.

Subject: Chemistry

Read to the Royal Society on 3 December 1662
Not copied in RBO/2ii

Reference number
RBO/2i/8
Earliest possible date
3 December 1662
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Thomas Henshaw

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Thomas Henshaw, 'Experiments of Freezing' by Mr Henshaw, 3 December 1662, RBO/2i/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_2i_8/experiments-of-freezing-by-mr-henshaw, accessed on 08 December 2025

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