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  <dc:title>Paper, 'Of oyl of vitr [vitriol]' by Dr [Frederick] Slare</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Slare describes his experiments to show the absorption of water from the air by oil of vitriol [sulphuric acid]. Oil of vitriol was set out and weighed periodically over several days as its mass increased to demonstrate that water was being absorbed by the oil.

Subject: Chemistry

Read to the Royal Society on 25 April 1683.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1683</dc:date>
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