 | 1840 - 706 pages
...was, that common air and inflammable air being burnt together, in the proportion of 1 000 measure! of the former to 423 of the latter, "about one-fifth...concludes, that " almost all the inflammable air, and about nrii'-.-i \t li of the common air.are turned into pure water." Mr. Cavendish then burned in the same... | |
 | 1840 - 702 pages
...also tried the experiment, and found none.* But Mr. Cavendish found there was always a dewy deposit, without any sooty matter. The result of many trials...water. He therefore concludes, that " almost all the mil immable air, and about one-sixth of the common air, are turned into pure water." Mr. Cavendish... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1840 - 510 pages
...when mixed in these proportions and exploded, almost all the inflammable air and about ^ of the common air lose their elasticity, and are condensed into the dew which lines the glass*." The subsequent laborious comparisons instituted by the French philosophers f between the absolute weight... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1845 - 358 pages
...also tried the experiment, and found none.t But Mr. Cavendish found there was always a dewy deposit, without any sooty matter. The result of many trials...elasticity, and are condensed into the dew which lines * Mr. Warltire's letter is dated Birmingham, 18th April, 1781, and was published by Dr. Priestley in... | |
 | Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1845 - 586 pages
...also tried the experiment, and found none.* But Mr. Cavendish found there was always a dewy deposit, without any sooty matter. The result of many trials...air, lose their elasticity, and are condensed into tiie dew which lines the glass." He examined the dew, and found it to be pure water. He therefore concludes,... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1845 - 582 pages
...inflammable air being burnt together, in the proportion of 1000 measures of the former to 423 of tb.6 latter, " about one-fifth of the common air, and nearly...inflammable air, lose their elasticity, and are condensed int6 the dew which lines the glass." He examined the deWj and fourid it to b* pure water. He therefore... | |
 | James Watt - 1846 - 410 pages
...this proportion, and exploded, almost all the inflammable air, and about one-fifth part of the common air, lose their elasticity, and are condensed into the dew which lines the glass. Air remaining after the explosion. Test of this air in first method. Common air. Inflammable air. Diminution.... | |
 | George Wilson - 1851 - 508 pages
...the circumstances described, " almost all the inflammable air, and about one-fifth part of the common air, lose their elasticity and are condensed into the dew which lines the glass." Having demonstrated in this way that the lost gas was accounted for, and remained in the produced liquid,... | |
 | Jonathan Pereira - 1854 - 1040 pages
...common air, are mixed and exploded, " almost all the inflammable air, and about one fifth of the common air, lose their elasticity, and are condensed into the dew which lines the glass." In the summer of 1783, Dr. (afterwards Sir Charles) Blagden* gave some account of Cavendish's experiments,... | |
 | James Patrick Muirhead - 1859 - 652 pages
...also tried the experiment, and found none. But Mr. Cavendish found there was always a dewy deposit, without any sooty matter. The result of many trials...water. He therefore concludes, that " almost all the inflam" mable air, and about one-sixth of the common air, are turned " into pure water." Mr. Cavendish... | |
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... four-fifths of the common air employed ; so that as common air cannot be reduced to a much less bulk than that by any method of phlogistication, we may safely conclude, that when they are mixed in this proportion, and exploded, almost all the inflammable... 
