The elementary nature of chlorine : papers / by Humphry Davy.

  • Davy Humphry, Sir, 1778-1829.
Date:
1894
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    Voltaic electricity ; but it is decompounded by all the metals; and in these cases hydrogene is elicited, in a manner similar to that in which one metal is precipitated by another; the oxygene being found in the new com- pound. This at first view, might be supposed in favour of the idea, that hydrogene is a simple substance; but the same reasoning may be applied to a protoxide as to a metal; and in the case of the nitromuriatic acid, when the nitrous acid is decomposed to assist in the formation of a metallic muriate, the body disengaged (nitrous gas,) is known to be in a high state of oxygenation. * * * -x- * Researches on the oxymziriatic Acid, its Natzire and Combinations ; and on the Ele^nents of the imtriatic Acid. With some Experiments on Sulphzir and Phosphorits, made in the Laboratory of the Royal InstittUion'^ t Read July 12, 1810. THE illustrious discoverer of the oxymuriatic acid considered it as muriatic acid freed from hydro- gene, J and the common muriatic acid as a com- pound of hydrogene and oxymuriatic acid ; and on this * Communicated to the Royal Society at the request of the Managers of the Royal Institution. t [From Philosophical Transactions for i8io, vol. 100, pp. 231-257. Pp. 251-257 are not reprinted.] X Mem. Acad, Stockholm for 1774, p. 94.