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Reference numberMM/5/7
LevelItem
TitleLetter from Joseph Priestley, Birmingham, to Josiah Wedgwood
Date6 March 1782
DescriptionDescribing the results of a recent experiment seeming to prove that "what we have called phlogiston is the same thing with inflammable air in a state of combustion with other bodies" and also on succeeding in making "nitrous air from nitrous acid and inflammable air"
Extent3 sides
FormatManuscript
Access statusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA8274Priestley; Joseph (1733 - 1804)1733 - 1804
NA8026Wedgwood; Josiah (1730 - 1795); potter1730 - 1795
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