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  <dc:title>Paper, 'An experiment made before the Royal Society' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Regarding the means by which air might be vitiated by passing through fire and flame, for example through hot brass and iron tubes using a bird within the tube as an indicator for the air's levels of pollution. Desaguliers bases his experiment on others done by Francis Hawksbee [Hauksbee]. 

Subject: Chemistry
 
Read to the Royal Society on 22 April 1714</dc:description>
  <dc:date>15 April 1714</dc:date>
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