 | Joseph Priestley - 1790 - 494 pagine
...endeavoured to extract air from mercurius cakinatusper Je ; and I prefently found that, by means of this lens, air was expelled from it very readily. Having...and found that it was not imbibed by it. But what furprized me more than I can well exprefs, was, that a candle burned in this air with a remarkably... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - 1821 - 506 pagine
...quicksilver, and inverted in a basin of the same metal. " I presently found," he says, " that by means of this lens, air was expelled from it very readily. Having...not imbibed by it. But what surprised me more than 1 can well express, was, that a candle burned in this air with a remarkably vigorous flame, very much... | |
 | 1824 - 884 pagine
...in the jar; heat was applied to it in this situation by a burning lens, and " I presently found that air was expelled from it very readily. Having got...much as the bulk of my materials, I admitted water into it, and found that it was not imbibed by it. But what surprised me more than I can well express,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 782 pagine
...quicksilver, and inverted in * basin of the same metal : ' 1 presently found (•* says) that by means of this lens, air was expelled from it very readily. Having...about three or four times as much as the bulk of my material, I admitted water to it, and found that it was not imbibed by it. But what surprised me more... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - 1830 - 678 pagine
...found," he says, " that by means of this lens, air was expelled from it very readily. Having got several times as much as the bulk of my materials, I admitted...express, was, that a candle burned in this air with a remarkable vigorous flame, very much like that enlarged flame with which a candle burns in nitrous... | |
 | Daniel B. Smith - 1842 - 326 pagine
...situation by a burning lens, " I presently found that air was expelled from it very readily. Having got three or four times as much as the bulk of my materials, I admitted water into it, and found that it was not imbibed by it. But what surprised me more than I can well express,... | |
 | Henry Minchin Noad - 1841 - 362 pagine
...mercurius calcinatus per se, (red precipitate of mercury,) and I presently found that by means of the lens, air was expelled from it very readily. Having...express, was, that a candle burned in this air with a remarkable vigorous flame, very much like that enlarged flame with which a candle burns in nitrous... | |
 | Henry Minchin Noad - 1843 - 530 pagine
...mercurius calcinatus per se, (red precipitate of mercury,) and I presently found that by means of the lens, air was expelled from it very readily. Having...express, was, that a candle burned in this air with a remarkable vigorous flame, very much like that enlarged flame with which a candle burns in nitrous... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1860 - 460 pagine
...means of this lens air was expelled from it very readily. Having got three or four times as much [air] as the bulk of my materials, I admitted water to it,...in this air with a remarkably vigorous flame." The gas thus discovered, to which he gave the name of " dephlogisticated air," was what is now known as... | |
 | John Henry Pepper - 1860 - 474 pagine
...readily. Having got about three or four times as much as the bulk of my materials, I admitted water into it, and found that it was not imbibed by it. But what...burned in this air with a remarkably vigorous flame, very much like that enlarged flame with which a candle buns in nitrous air exposed to iron or lime... | |
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I presently found that, by means of this lens, air was expelled from it very readily. Having got about three or four times as much as the bulk of my materials, I admitted water to it, and found that it was not imbibed by it. But what surprised me more... 
