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(1782): Lavoisier admitted as "associé libre" to the Société Royale de Médecine.
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(1782): Lavoisier and Laplace design an instrument, the calorimeter, for the measurement of heat.
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(1782): Award of the prize of saltpetre (postponed from 1778) to the Thouvenel brothers. Lavoisier, as secretary of the commission, is charged with editing for publication the collection of memoirs submitted.
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(1782-02-07): Expansion of mercury. Lavoisier weighs the overflow of mercury from a flask upon expansion.
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(1782-02-07): Solution of steel springs in nitric acid.
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(1782-03-06): At the Académie Lavoisier and Laplace record date of a series of experiments on electrical phenomena accompanying vaporization or condensation.
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(1782-03-18) (1782-03-23): A commission (including Lavoisier) from the Académie and the Société Royale de Médecine observes M. Janin's process of emptying cesslpools, which was supposed to destroy the deadly vapors.
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(1782-03-26): Flame of enameller's lamp intensified by oxygen.
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(1782-03-26): Lavoisier begins experiments on organic substances.
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(1782-04-07): Condorcet initials a copy of the Mémoire sur un moyen d'augmenter considérablement l'action du feu et de la chaleur dans les opérations chimiques.
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(1782-04-10): Lavoisier continues experiments to determine the nature of the mephitic vapors from decaying matter.
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(1782-04-10): At the Académie Lavoisier reads a memoir on means of increasing the intensity of flame using dephlogisticated air.
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(1782-04-13): Lavoisier, Laplace and Volta makes experiments on vaporisation by using Volta's condenser in the garden of Lavoisier's father in law's residence at Courbevoie..
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(1782-04-17): Condorcet initials a copy of memoir on electricity.
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(1782-06-05): At the Académie shows that a strong fire produced by charcoal and a stream of dephlogisticated air could melt platinum.
P-V, 1782, fol. 103.
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(1782-06-22) (1782-07-19): Oxygen-fed flame. Tests of flame on various minerals.
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(1782-07-10): Letter of Priestley to Lavoisier introducing a Dr. Stokes and mentioning a communication to Franklin on the identity of inflammable air and phlogiston.
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(1782-07-21): Letter of Monge at Mézières to Lavoisier on the receipt of Lavoisier's machine pneumatique.
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(1782-07-26): Submits various substances to ignited mixture of inflammable air and dephlogisticated air.
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(1782-07-27): Second session of experiments with the ice calorimeter. Attempt to measure specific heats of mercury and water.
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(1782-11) (1782-12-30): Experiments with ice calorimeter. Specific heats of water, mercury, quicklime, slaked lime, sulphuric acid and iron.
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(1782-12-12): Solution of copper in nitric acid.
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