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William Brownrigg's Papers on Fire-Damps (2010)

Tomory, Leslie (Author)

Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Volume: 64
Pages: 261--270

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Pneumatic chemistry States of matter Chemistry Gases 18th century Brownrigg. William Cavendish, Henry Royal Society of London

In 1741--42, William Brownrigg prepared five papers on fire-damps for the Royal Society in which he articulated a theory of a gaseous state of matter, argued that different sorts of elastic fluid existed, and claimed that atmospheric air was a heterogeneous mixture of various elastic fluids with different properties that had only their elasticity in common. Although these papers were never published, there is a strong possibility that they influenced the later development of pneumatic chemistry, because Henry Cavendish was very probably aware of a good portion of their contents.

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