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RefNoAP/34/11
Previous numbersAP.34.11
LevelItem
TitleUnpublished paper, 'On the amount of acid, sugar and alcohol in wine, beer and spirits' by Henry Bence Jones
Date1853
DescriptionJones shares his methods for calculating the amount of acid, sugar and alcohol in wine, beer and spirits. He shares tables of his findings for a variety of alcohols including port, sherry, Marsala or Madeira wine, champagne, brandy, rum and cider.

Subject: Chemistry / Brewing

Received 17 November 1853.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 6 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'On the acidity, sweetness, and strength of wine, beer and spirits'.
Extent18p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1850.0135
RelatedRecordRR/2/122
RR/2/123
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CodePersonNameDates
NA3283Jones; Henry Bence (1813 - 1873); physician and chemist1813 - 1873
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