| Abstract: |
(1774-09-03): Cadet reports to the Académie that red precipitate of mercury per se could be reduced to mercury without addition of charcoal. A commission named to verify the experiment (of which Lavoisier was a member). Report read Nov. 19, 1774. Thus Lavoisier must have known this fact before or shortly after Priestley's visit.
Observations sur la physique, 1775, vol. 6, pp. 55-60. |