Meteorological observations and essays / By John Dalton.

  • John Dalton
Date:
1834
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    ~ VoL the several gases or elastic fluids constituting the atmosphere. On the tendency of elastic fluids to diffusion through each other. | On the absorption of gases, by water and other liquids. Remarks on Mr. Gough’s two essays on the doctrine of mixed gases; and on professor Schmidt’s experiments on the expan- sion of dry and moist air by heat. 2. On respiration and animal heat. 3, Experiments and observations on phosphoric acid, and on the salts denominated phosphates. Experiments and observations on the combinations of carbonic acid and ammonia. Remarks tending to facilitate the analysis of spring and mi- neral waters. Memoir on sulphuric ether. Observations on the barometer, thermometer, and rain, at Manchester, from 1794 to 1818 inclusive. 4, On oil, and the gases obtained from it by heat. Observations in meteorology, particularly with regard to the dew-point, or quantity of vapour in the atmosphere ; made on the mountains in the North of England. On the saline impregnation of the rain which fell during the late storm, December 5th, 1822—with an appendix to the same. On the nature and properties of indigo, with directions for the valuation of different samples. 5. Observations on the nature of the rock strata of Manchester. On the quantity of rain, &c. at Geneva, and at Great St. Bernard, for a series of years. On the mechanical effects of atmospheric pressure on the animal frame. On the quantity and chemical elements of food compared with the secretions in a healthy person; founded on a series of ex- periments. In the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. On the constitution of the atmosphere.—1826. On the height of the aurora borealis.—1828.