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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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(1783): Lavoisier joins the Société d'Agriculture.
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(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
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(1783-01-22): Letter from Lavoisier to Franklin congratulating him on the preliminary peace terms and inviting him to dinner on the following Monday.
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(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.
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(1783-03-08): Berthollet and Lavoisier report to the Académie on Cadet de Vaux's memoir on toxic vapors from certain wells.
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(1783-03-23): Letter of d'Ormesson informing Lavoisier that he has been appointed to the administrative committee of the Ferme Générale.
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(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.
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(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.
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(1783-05-19): Combustion of a candle
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(1783-05-24): Combustion of Charcoal in oxygen. Calculation of the quantity of fixed air formed.
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(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
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(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
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(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).
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