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

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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$[ ”2 ] Were, therefore, aether and phlogifton, in fimU lar Hates of excitement, at equal diftances from their refpeCtive fixed centres, it is evident, that an at- mofpheric line compofed of ioo particles of aether, would attraCt an atmofpheric line of phlogifton containing ioo particles, their excitement being equal ; but, if the atmofpheric line of phlogifton was compofed with 120 particles, the laft, or the 120th particle of phlogifton, from the centre* would not be fo much excited as the 100th particle of aether ; and its force of attraction of combination with that aetherial particle, would not equal the force of the attraction of arrangement by which that 100th particle of aether, is attracted, by its contiguous, or 99th particle of aether ; the two atmofpheres, therefore, would have no Jenfible action upon each other. And, were we to fuppofe that the laft particle \ ,r1 • of aether, being at the diftance of 100 from its centre, would attraCt the 100th particle of phlo¬ gifton from its centre ; and that, if that extreme aetherial particle was applied to the 100th particle of phlogifton, being the 20th from the extremity$