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Sir, Having listened with much attention, and derived much useful information from the very curious experiments of Mr. Cavendish, read at our last meeting, it is with peculiar regret i feel myself withheld from yielding an intire assent to all he has advanced in his very ingenious paper; and it is with still greater that I find myself obliged, by reason of the opposition of some of his deductions to those I had the honour to lay before the society about two years ago, to expose the reasons of my dissent, through your mediation, before this meeting. In the paper already mentioned, read in April, 1782, I attributed the diminution of respirable air, observed in common phlogistic processes, to the generation and absorption of fixed air, which is now known to be an acid, and capable of being absorbed by several substances.
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