Experiments on air : papers published in the Philosophical Transactions / by the Hon. Henry Cavendish.

  • Cavendish, Henry, 1731-1810.
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1893
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Edinburgh : William F. Clay, 1893.

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52 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

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"The two papers contained in this reprint both appeared in the Philosophical Transactions (1784, vol.74, pp.119-153; and 1785, vol.75, pp.372-384) under the title 'Experiments on air.' The first paper contains Cavendish's account of his investigations into the composition of water ... The second paper ... contains the account of the discovery of the composition of nitric acid."--Editor's pref

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