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(1776-01-25): Priestley publishes his Observations on respirations, and the use of the blood … Read at the Royal Society, Jan. 25, 1776
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(1776-02-11): Dissolution of mercury in nitric acid
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(1776-02-12): Collection of gas from water.
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(1776-02-17): Lavoisier drafts a notes on those substances which are always in gaseous state.
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(1776-03): First version of memoir on animal respiration.
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(1776-04): After move to the Arsenal, resumes experiments. Mixes five parts of residual air in which mercury was calcined with one part of dephlogisticated air. Test mixture with candle which "y brule comme dans l'air."
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(1776-04-17): At the Académie "M. Lavoisier a lu un écrit." This is probably the extracts on the cold of winter 1775.76 prepared for the Easter public session of the Académie.
P-V, 1776, fol. 123.
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(1776-04-20): At the Académie "M. Lavoisier a lu un Mémoire sur l'existence de l'air dans l'acide nitreux et sur les moyens de décomposer et recomposer cet acide."
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(1776-04-24): At the Académie in connection with the reading of Lavoisier's memoir of April 20 "M. le duc de Chaulnes qui était présent a promis de faire voir les moyens qu'il a imaginés pour rendre les expériences plus faciles."
P-V, 1776, fol. 126.
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(1776-04-28): Experiments on the specific gravities of gases.
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(1776-10-13): Experiments with Trudaine. Calcination of metals and properties of air in which metals have been calcined. Tested by exposing birds.
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(1776-10-16): Birds exposed to dephlogisticated air in which previous bird had died. Burning charcoal in dephlogisticated air. Experiments on burning candle in dephlogisticated air; study of residual air.
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(1776-11-13): At the Académie "M. Lavoisier se proposait de lire un Mémoire sur la décomposition de l'air dans le poumon." This is the public session of the rentrée; program too full for him to have to read the memoir. The memoir was initialed by Condorce
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(1776-12-03): Benjamin Franklin arrives in france, raches Paris, December 21.
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