British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 5Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1819 - Natural history |
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... oxygen . Alcohol consists of carbon and hydrogen , with a portion of oxygen : when mixed with sulphuric acid , and ex- posed to heat , it was supposed that part of the acid suffered decomposition , its oxygen being attracted by the ...
... oxygen . Alcohol consists of carbon and hydrogen , with a portion of oxygen : when mixed with sulphuric acid , and ex- posed to heat , it was supposed that part of the acid suffered decomposition , its oxygen being attracted by the ...
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... oxygen , for the production of ether . Thus , ether cannot be formed from the muriatic acid , but it can with facility from the oxymuriatic ; it is like- wise formed with great rapidity by the nitric acid ; neither of which can exert a ...
... oxygen , for the production of ether . Thus , ether cannot be formed from the muriatic acid , but it can with facility from the oxymuriatic ; it is like- wise formed with great rapidity by the nitric acid ; neither of which can exert a ...
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... oxygen gas , an explosion happens on the contact of an ignited body . Sulphuric ether is soluble in water ; but only in a limited proportion . When highly rectified , it requires ten parts of water for its solution ; and this is a ...
... oxygen gas , an explosion happens on the contact of an ignited body . Sulphuric ether is soluble in water ; but only in a limited proportion . When highly rectified , it requires ten parts of water for its solution ; and this is a ...
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... oxygen from the nitric acid , and form oxalic and acetic acids ; carbonic acid gas too is formed and disengaged , as Pelletier found , in considerable quantity , and much of the nitric acid mixed with nitric oxide and nitrogen gases ...
... oxygen from the nitric acid , and form oxalic and acetic acids ; carbonic acid gas too is formed and disengaged , as Pelletier found , in considerable quantity , and much of the nitric acid mixed with nitric oxide and nitrogen gases ...
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... oxygen contained in at- mospheric air , or indeed in any gas in which it is not intimately combined , is named eudiometry , and the instrument by which it is performed , the eudiome- ter . To attain such a measurement , it is merely ...
... oxygen contained in at- mospheric air , or indeed in any gas in which it is not intimately combined , is named eudiometry , and the instrument by which it is performed , the eudiome- ter . To attain such a measurement , it is merely ...
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