| Abstract: |
(1783-06-25): At the Académie Lavoisier and Laplace announce the experimental results obtained the previous day. Water formed from combining some sixty pints of oxygen and hydrogen; producing only very pure water. They conclude: "l'eau n'est pas une substance simple, elle est composée poids par poids d'air inflammable et d'air vital."
P-V, 1783, 1783, fol. 138. |