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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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