Researches, chemical and philosophical : chiefly concerning nitrous oxide, or diphlogisticated nitrous air, and its respiration / by Humphry Davy.

  • Davy, Humphry, Sir, 1778-1829.
Date:
1800
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Credit: Researches, chemical and philosophical : chiefly concerning nitrous oxide, or diphlogisticated nitrous air, and its respiration / by Humphry Davy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    From the delicate experiments of Dr. Pear Ion, on thepaflage of the e]e61ric fpark through water, it appears however probable, that much more than -^ of atmofpheric air is fometimes held in folution by that fluid,* poffibly the whole of the air is not expelled by nitrous oxide, owing to fome unknown law of faturation by which an equilibrium of affinity is produced, forming a triple compound. ■* Poffibly a ratio exists between the folubility of gafes ID water, and the folubility of water in gafes. It is proba- ble from Mr. Wra. Henry's curious experiments on the muriatic acid, that the abfolute quantity of water in many gafes, may be afcertained by means of its decompofition by the ele6iric fpark.