Homogeneous mixture of the gaseous substances nitrogen, oxygen, and smaller amounts of other substances; gas mixture present in the Earth's atmosphere

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Dissertatio inauguralis, de aere dephlogisticato ... / / Eruditorum examini subjicit Jonathan Stokes.

A condenser, an air-gun and a ventilator. Etching by A. Walker after B. Martin.

Experiments and observations on different kinds of air, and other branches of natural philosophy, connected with the subject ... / being the former six volumes abridged and methodized, with many additions. By Joseph Priestley.

New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air, and its effects (made for the most part, in a new pneumatical engine) / Written by way of letter to ... Charles, Lord Vicount of Dungarvan ... by the Honorable Robert Boyle.

Aeolus, at the request of Juno, opens a door in a mountainside, releasing the winds that will wreck the fleet of Aeneas; representing the element air. Engraving by C. Dupuis, 1718, after Louis de Boullogne the younger.

Pneumatics: three kinds of air pump, including (lower right) Cuthbertson's design. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1796.

Pneumatics: a large kind of air pump. Engraving after B. Martin.

Pneumatics: an air-rifle and a kind of spirit lamp [?]. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1802.

Pneumatics: page to a partwork on science, with pictures of scientific equipment. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1804.

Pneumatics: an air-rifle and a kind of windmill. Engraving by J. Taylor.

Air, water and food from a sanitary standpoint / by Ellen H. Richards and Alpheus G. Woodman.

Sylvester O'Halloran's "Treatise on the air" / J.B. Lyons.

Thèse présentée et publiquement soutenue à la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier, le 23 décembre 1840 / par R.-J. Laffitte.

Contribution à l'étude de l'injection hypodermique d'air dans la thérapeutique des névrites et névralgies : thèse présentée et publiquement soutenue à la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier le 28 avril 1908 / par Albert-Désiré Karoubi.

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Air

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Air, water and food from a sanitary standpoint / by Ellen H. Richards and Alpheus G. Woodman.

Dissertatio inauguralis, de aere dephlogisticato ... / / Eruditorum examini subjicit Jonathan Stokes.

Sylvester O'Halloran's "Treatise on the air" / J.B. Lyons.

Thèse présentée et publiquement soutenue à la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier, le 23 décembre 1840 / par R.-J. Laffitte.

Contribution à l'étude de l'injection hypodermique d'air dans la thérapeutique des névrites et névralgies : thèse présentée et publiquement soutenue à la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier le 28 avril 1908 / par Albert-Désiré Karoubi.

Air

Images from the collections

Images referencing Air

Works from the collections

Air, water and food from a sanitary standpoint / by Ellen H. Richards and Alpheus G. Woodman.

Dissertatio inauguralis, de aere dephlogisticato ... / / Eruditorum examini subjicit Jonathan Stokes.

Sylvester O'Halloran's "Treatise on the air" / J.B. Lyons.

Thèse présentée et publiquement soutenue à la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier, le 23 décembre 1840 / par R.-J. Laffitte.

Contribution à l'étude de l'injection hypodermique d'air dans la thérapeutique des névrites et névralgies : thèse présentée et publiquement soutenue à la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier le 28 avril 1908 / par Albert-Désiré Karoubi.

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