Richard Kirwan

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Richard Kirwan, LL.D, FRS, FRSE MRIA (1 August 1733 – 22 June 1812) was an Irish geologist and chemist of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He was one of the last supporters of the theory of phlogiston.

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