A medical commentary on fixed air ... / By Matthew Dobson.

  • Matthew Dobson
Date:
1787
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    trivance refembling the mill of a chocolate pot. The Duke finds that thirty or forty pints of water may, in one minute, thus be faturated with fixed air.* | 5. M. Venel, late Profeffor of Che- _toiftry in the Univerfity of Montpelier, cotitrived, many years ago, a {till different procefs for impregnating water with Fixed Air. By this procefs the Fixed Air is transferred in a +quiefcent fate from the alkaline falt, and paffes without any fen- oufly diffolved. ‘That this procefs may diately well corked.¢ The particulars of this “procefs may be feen at large in two memoirs. read before the Royal Academy et Scientes in 1750, and publithed in the fecond »® Journal de Phyfique. +A: procefs fimilar to this is defcribed in Dr. Lewis's Abiidgment of Neumann’s Chemiftry. Note, p. 176. F. t It is to be obferved that M. Venel fuppofes the elaftic fluid contained in mineral waters to be common atinofpheric air. \