On the properties of matter, the principles of chemistry, and the nature and construction of aeriform fluids, or gases / [E. Peart].
- Edward Peart
- Date:
- 1792
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On the properties of matter, the principles of chemistry, and the nature and construction of aeriform fluids, or gases / [E. Peart]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ *07 ] their liberty> will combine and efcape in the form of flame, in which is fire and light. If an alkali be thrown into the fiate of air by means of phlogifton, but where that phlogiftic atmofphere is of lejs extent, and, confequently, imperfeffi that phlogifion will be Jenfibly attive, as being more excited by being lefs difiant from the exciting fixed centre; as is the cafe when volatile alkali is changed, by heat, into alkaline air: which, however, feems not to be entirely compofed of the pure alkaline principle, and phlogifton. v * v i , > So, likewife, when an acid acquires, by the fame means, aether enough to render it aeriform, but not fo much as to change it to pure air, it is poflefled of evident chemical activity and forms an acid air ; though not wholly formed of the acid principle with aether. If this alkaline and acid air be mixed together, the phlogifton of the one, and the aether of the other, being each in fimilar ftates of a&ivity, will P 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30794262_0111.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
