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Experiments Upon Magnesia Alba, Quicklime, and Some Other Alcaline Substances

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  • Joseph Black, detail of an engraving by J. Rogers after a portrait by Sir Henry Raeburn
    In Joseph Black: Alkalinity research and fixed air

    …paper of his career, “Experiments upon Magnesia Alba, Quicklime, and Some Other Alcaline Substances,” given to the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh in 1755. The earlier series of experiments for his thesis were conducted on magnesium salt and, for the first time, consisted of a planned cyclic series of quantitative…

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