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  <dc:title>Translation of a letter, from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to the Royal Society</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Observations of silver deposits on Leeuwenhoek's hands after he had experimented with mixtum (mixture of gold and silver) and aqua regia (mixture of nitric acid and hydrochloric acid); treating a horny induration on Leeuwenhoek's third finger with vitriol, and then with aqua fortis (nitric acid and sulphuric acid)
Original is EL/L3/74
English translation printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 24, no 295, p 1794</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1705</dc:date>
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