| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1855 - 526 páginas
...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 similar accounts are plainly given by some persons... | |
| William Whewell - 1858 - 682 páginas
...two gases, oxygen and hydrogen, must be considered as holding a most distinguished place. He states,4 that his " experiments were made principally with...describing various unsuccessful attempts, he finds * Phil. Trant. 1766. Phil. Trara. 1784, p. M9. VOL. 1L— 18. that when inflammable air is. used in... | |
| William Whewell - 1859 - 668 páginas
...gases, oxygen and hydrogen, must be considered as holding a most distinguished place. He states, 4 that his " experiments were made principally with...describing various unsuccessful attempts, he finds ' Phil. Trans. 1766. Phil. Trans. 1784, p. 1-19. that when inflammable air is used in this phlogistication... | |
| William Whewell - 1866 - 680 páginas
...two gases, oxygen and hydrogen, must be considered as holding a most distinguished place. He states,4 that his " experiments were made principally with...describing various unsuccessful attempts, he finds 1 Phil. Tram. 1766. Pliil. Tram. 1784, p. 119. You II.— 18. that when inflammable air is used in... | |
| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 536 páginas
...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 Cyclopsedia, vol. vi., p. 392. This and other similar accounts are plainly given by some persons... | |
| George Gore - 1878 - 694 páginas
...all the inflammable air, and one-fifth of the common air, are turned into pure water ; ' and stated that his ' experiments were made principally with...all the various ways in which it is phlogisticated ; ' ie burned. Lavoisier was engaged at the same time on the same question, and made a similar discovery... | |
| George Gore - 1878 - 688 páginas
...all the inflammable air, and one-fifth of the common air, are turned into pure water ; ' and stated that his ' experiments were made principally with...known to suffer, by all the various ways in which it 1 Sir WS Harris, Rudimentary EUetricty, p. 123. 2 IUd., pp. 1, 2, 56. *• is phlogisticated ; ' ie... | |
| Leslie Stephen - 1887 - 500 páginas
...Cavendish himself commences his paper ' Experiments on Air ' by stating that his experiments were made ' with a view to find out the cause of the diminution which common air is well known to suffer, bv all the various ways in which it is phlogistieated, and to discover what becomes of the air thus... | |
| British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1891 - 1282 páginas
...1781, App. p. 395. At this period Cavendish was engaged on a series of experiments ' made, as he says, principally with a view to find out the cause of the...common air is well known to suffer by all the various wavs in which it is phlogisticated, and to discover what becomes of the air thus lost or condensed."... | |
| Henry Cavendish - 1893 - 68 páginas
...FIRST PAPER. Philosophical Transactions, Vol. 74 (for 1784], pp. Read January 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... | |
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