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   1783 
(1783): Lavoisier joins the Société d'Agriculture.
(1783-01-02) (1783-03-28): Continues calorimetric studies with Laplace. Specific heats and heats of a few reactions: quicklime and water, quicklime and nitric acid, dilution of sulphuric acid, solution of salts and water, attack of steel by sulphuric acid
(1783-01-22): Letter from Lavoisier to Franklin congratulating him on the preliminary peace terms and inviting him to dinner on the following Monday.
(1783-01-22): At the Académie "M. Lavoisier relit un mémoire lu à la séance publique de Pacques 1782, auquel il a ajouté une suite d'expériences faites avec cet appareil." P-V, 1783, fol. 79.
(1783-03-08): Berthollet and Lavoisier report to the Académie on Cadet de Vaux's memoir on toxic vapors from certain wells.
(1783-03-23): Letter of d'Ormesson informing Lavoisier that he has been appointed to the administrative committee of the Ferme Générale.
(1783-04-25): Lavoisier, Tillet and Varnier report to the Société Royale de Médecine on Le Roux's process for making cloth impermeable to air and water.
(1783-05-05): Experiments on respiration of birds and Guinea pigs in oxygen. Continued the 12 and 19 May. Examination of the purity of the oxygen with nitrous air.
(1783-05-19): Combustion of a candle
(1783-05-24): Combustion of Charcoal in oxygen. Calculation of the quantity of fixed air formed.
(1783-05-31): At the Académie "M. Lavoisier a lu une note sur l'expérience par laquelle M. Priestley a prétendu que l'eau se convertissait en air et de laquelle il résulte que l'air dans cette expérience passait à travers les vaisseaux." Concerns the expe
(1783-06-05): The Montgolfier brothers carry out their balloon experiments in the presence of "MM. Les Etats particuliers de Vivarais" at Annonay. M. d'Ormesson, the controleur général, send procès-verbal of the experiment to the Académie, received July 2
(1783-06-13): Lavoisier favorably reports to the Société Royale de Médecine (for himself, Macquer and Fourcroy) on Madame de Mazis' process for plating cooking utensils. They had earlier given an unfavorable report (January 2).
(1783-06-18): At the Académie "M. Delaplace a lu un mémoire fait conjointement avec M. Lavoisier sur une nouvelle méthode de mesurer la chaleur." P-V, 1783, fol. 144.
(1783-06-24): Experiments on the production of water by detonating oxygen and hydrogen under a bell jar, carried out in the presence of Blagden, Laplace, Vadermonde, Fourcroy, Meusnier, Legendre and Le Roy.
(1783-06-25): At the Académie Lavoisier and Laplace announce the experimental results obtained the previous day. Water formed from combining some sixty pints of oxygen and hydrogen; producing only very pure water. They conclude: "l'eau n'est pas une subst
(1783-07-02): At the Académie Lavoisier, Desmarets, Bossut, Le Roy and Monge are named commissioners for the examination of an aerostatic machine invented by Montgolfier. P-V, 1783, fol. 150.
(1783-08-06): Vandermonde reads to the Académie Monge's memoir on the residue of the combustion of inflammable air and vital air, a communication of results obtained by Monge on the composition of water during the month of June, simultaneous with, but ind
(1783-08-25): Beginning of a series of experiments on dissolving mercury in nitric acid, the purpose being to determine the composition of nitric acid. Experiments continued August 26-October 20.
(1783-09): Laplace communicates to Lavoisier the idea that hydrogen released by the action of acids results from decomposition of water.
(1783-09-15): At a meeting of the Société Royale de Médecine Lavoisier presents a memoir on vitriolic ether.
(1783-09-19): Letter of Macquer to Lavoisier referring to a report they are making together on analysis of certain vegetable ashes sent them by the controleur général.
(1783-09-27): Iron dissolved in sulphuric acid.
(1783-10) (1783-11): During recess of the Académie Lavoisier attempts experiments on decomposition of watrer by cold iron filings. Informed by Blagden, then in Paris, of Priestley's regeneration of metals from their calces by the action of hydrogen.
(1783-10-04): Hydrochloric acid, reaction with alkali and action of iron

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