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Priestley as a Practical Chemist

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WITHOUT wishing to be captious, may I say that the statement by Prof. Meldrum at the Chemical Society on April 6 (NATUBE, April 15, page 555) that Priestley had confessed himself “not a practical chemist”, seems to me to convey rather a wrong impression, because I fancy that by the term practical chemist, Priestley meant something a little different from what we nowadays would mean by the expression.

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PATTEBSON, T. Priestley as a Practical Chemist. Nature 131, 690 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131690a0

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