Farther experiments relating to the decomposition of dephlogisticated and inflammable air. Read April 7, 1791 / by Joseph Priestley.

  • Joseph Priestley
Date:
1791]
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Credit: Farther experiments relating to the decomposition of dephlogisticated and inflammable air. Read April 7, 1791 / by Joseph Priestley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    k 20 Dr. Priestley’s Experiments, Sec. meafures of inflammable air and one of dephlogiilicated; whereas there was either no fixed air at all, or the {lighted: appearance of it imaginable, when I made ufe of inflammable air from malleable iron, extradled either by means of fleam or acids. The principal of thefe experiments, as well as thofe in my former Papers on this fubjeff, will be found to confirm the fimilar ones of Mr. Cavendish ; but they prove the fource of the acid in the refults not to be what he imagined, viz. phlo- gifticated air, but the union of the dephlogifticated and in¬ flammable air; and they alfo make it at lead: doubtful, whe=* ther thefe two kinds of air compofe pure water.
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