| RefNo | CLP/18i/118 |
| Level | File |
| Title | Paper, 'An account of an experiment touching the freezing of common water ting'd with a liquid, said to be extracted from shell lac [shellac]' by Francis Hauksbee |
| Date | 1708 |
| Description | Hauksbee writes: 'This Liquid is a very deep Red; a small quantity of which, will Tinge twenty times as much of Common Water of a very good Sanguine colour hardly Transparent.'
Subject: Physics
Read to the Royal Society on 28 February 1708
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of an experiment touching the freezing of common water, ting'd with a liquid said to be extracted from shell-lac' |
| Language | English |
| Extent | 2p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1708.0047 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8345 | Hauksbee; Francis (c 1660 - 1713) | c 1660 - 1713 |