 | William Whewell - 1837 - 1046 pages
...mind of Priestley, whose Experiments and Observations on different kinds of Air appeared in 1774-79. In these volumes, he describes an extraordinary number...air is accompanied by the formation of a dew in the apparatus4. And thus he infers5 that "almost all the inflammable air, and one-fifth of the common air,... | |
 | William Whewell - 1837 - 646 pages
...kinds of air, namely phlogisticated air, (azotic gas-) nitrous air, (nitrous gas,) and depMogisticated air, (oxygen gas.) But the discovery of new substances,...air is accompanied by the formation of a dew in the apparatus4. And thus he infers3 that "almost all the inflammable air, and one-fifth of the common air,... | |
 | Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1845 - 586 pages
...undertaken with any view to the water formed by burning inflammable air, but that they were made " with a view to find out the cause of the diminution...the various ways in which it is phlogisticated, and to discover what becomes of the air thus lost or consumed ;" and the author adds, that besides " determining... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1845 - 562 pages
...undertaken with any view to the water formed by burning inflammable air, but that they were made " with a view to find out the cause of the diminution...the various ways in which it is phlogisticated, and to discover what becomes of the air thus lost or consumed ;" and the author adds, that besides " determining... | |
 | James Watt - 1846 - 410 pages
...No. III. EXPERIMENTS ON AIR. BY HENRY CAVENDISH, ESQ., FRS & SA* Read Jan. 15, 1784. THE following experiments were made principally with a view to find...the various ways in which it is phlogisticated, and to discover what becomes of the air thus lost or condensed ; and as they seem not only to determine... | |
 | William Whewell - 1847 - 740 pages
...two gases, oxygen and hydrogen, must be considered as holding a most distinguished place, He states', that " his experiments were made principally with...air is accompanied by the formation of a dew in the apparatus1. And thus he infers' that "almost all ' Phil. Trans. I784, |i. II!). Ml». j1 I2H. Mb. p.... | |
 | George Wilson - 1851 - 506 pages
...the composition of water, are under discussion. Cavendish begins by observing that " the following experiments were made principally with a view to find...the various ways in which it is phlogisticated, and to discover what becomes of the air thus lost or condensed." He then mentions that many have supposed... | |
 | George Wilson - 1851 - 508 pages
...oxygen of the air, into a liquid or soluble compound. Cavendish's paper, recounting experiments which " were made principally with a view to find out the...all the various ways in which it is phlogisticated," was not read to the Royal Society till a year after his communication on the eudiometer, f Scheele's... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1855 - 520 pages
...proving clearly that these gases have nothing in common with the atmospheric air (voL il, p. 87, 88> air is well known to suffer by all the various ways in which it is phlogisticated, and to discover what becomes of the air thus lost or consumed ;" and the author adds, that besides, " determining... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1855 - 526 pages
...undertaken with any view to the water formed by burning inflammable air, but that they were made " with a view to find out the cause of the diminution which common * Penny Cyclopaedia, vol. vi., p. 392. This and other sinular accounts are plainly given by some persons... | |
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his experiments were made principally with a view to find out the cause of the diminution which common air is well known to suffer, by all the various ways in which it is phlogisticated. 
