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'An Experiment To Prove that the substance of a Candle Lamp is dissolved by the Air and the greatest part thereof reduced into a Fluid in the forme of Air' brought in by Robert Hooke

Reference number: RBO/4/41

Date: 1672

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Candle or lamp dissolved by air into a fluid in the forms of air
Read at the Royal Society on 14 March 1672

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RBO/4/41
Earliest possible date
1672
Page extent
2 pages
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Manuscript

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Robert Hooke

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Robert Hooke, 'An Experiment To Prove that the substance of a Candle Lamp is dissolved by the Air and the greatest part thereof reduced into a Fluid in the forme of Air' brought in by Robert Hooke, 1672, RBO/4/41, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_4_41/an-experiment-to-prove-that-the-substance-of-a-candle-lamp-is-dissolved-by-the-air-and-the-greatest-part-thereof-reduced-into-a-fluid-in-the-forme-of-air-brought-in-by-robert-hooke, accessed on 05 October 2024

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