Article ID: CBB001022712

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

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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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Authors & Contributors
Tomory, Leslie
McCormmach, Russell
Seifert, Vanessa
Dee Ann Castel
Turner, Steven
Zwier, Karen R.
Concepts
Chemistry
Gases
Pneumatic chemistry
Experiments and experimentation
Scientific illustration
Medicine
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
Places
Great Britain
France
Bath (England)
British Isles
Institutions
Royal Society of London
Smithsonian Institution
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