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RefNoCLP/18i/82
LevelItem
TitlePaper, 'An account of an experiment made December the 26th 1704 to try the quality of air produc’d from gunpowder, fir’d in Vacuo Boyliano' by Francis Hauksbee
Date[1704]
DescriptionHauksbee writes: 'Upon making the late experiment of firing gunpowder in vacuo, it was hinted as well worthy of tryal, whether the factitious air of fir’d gunpowder was endu’d with any quality differing from common air.'

Subject: Physics

Read to the Royal Society on 21 March 1704

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of an experiment made Decemb. the 26th, 1704. To try the quality of air, produc’d from gunpowder, fir’d in Vacuo Boyliano'
LanguageEnglish
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1704.0052
RelatedRecordCLP/18i/83
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8345Hauksbee; Francis (c 1660 - 1713)c 1660 - 1713
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