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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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(1782-03-26): 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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(1782-04-10): Lavoisier continues experiments to determine the nature of the mephitic vapors from decaying matter.
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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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(1782-06-05): 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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(1782-07-26): 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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(1783-01-02) (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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(1783-05-05): 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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(1783-06-24): 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.
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(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.
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(1783-09-27): Iron dissolved in sulphuric acid.
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(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.
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(1783-10-04): Hydrochloric acid, reaction with alkali and action of iron
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(1783-10-15): Study of combinations of nitrous gas and oxygen.
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(1783-12-18): Resumption of work on calorimetry (with Laplace?) - heats of combustion and specific heats of various substances. Heat produced by respiration of a Guinea pig.
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(1784-01-01) (1784-03-14): More calorimetric experiments with Laplace: heats of respiration, of combustion; specific heats. The related memoir is published in the Mémoires de chimie.
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(1784-03): Combustion of wax and charcoal. Respiration of a Guinea pig, weight of "acide carbonique" formed. Combustion of phosphorous.
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