 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 809 pages
...one, so that water is demonstrated both by synthesis and analysis to be formed of hydrogen and oxygen, in the proportion of two volumes of the former to one of the latter. 353. Under the word WATER, in the body of the work, we shall enter into a disquisition on its... | |
 | Science - 1829 - 414 pages
...from moisture or prussic acid retained between the plates of the salt, are carbonic acid and azote in the proportion of two volumes of the former to one of the latter. But though its constituents be thus correctly made out, I am not aware that any chemist has... | |
 | Thomas Thomson - Chemistry, Inorganic - 1831 - 954 pages
...made to pass through a red-hot porcelain tube, it is decomposed into sulphurous acid and oxygen gases, in the proportion of two volumes of the former to one of the latter. Freezing. "When exposed to n sufficient degree of cold, it crystallizes or freezes ; and after... | |
 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Humanities - 1852 - 406 pages
...of space above the fluid within the can or lamp was large, and always in the presence of flame. (4) A mixture of hydrogen (an inflammable gas) with oxygen...eminently explosive, (c) Atmospheric air, substituted for axygen, lessens the violence of the explosion when flame is applied, (d) The carbo-hydrogen, employed... | |
 | Chemical Society (Great Britain) - Chemistry - 1900 - 1466 pages
...temperature is kept low, ammonia unites with sulphur dioxide, especially if the ammonia is in excess, in the proportion of two volumes of the former to one of the latter (p. 330), but since, at the ordinary temperature, this union is immediately followed by a decomposition... | |
 | John Charles Buckmaster - Chemistry, Inorganic - 1858 - 240 pages
...without much light, but intense heat. The temperature may be increased by mixing the hydrogen and oxygen in the proportion of two volumes of the former to one of the latter, and burning it from a safety jet. This is called the oxyhydrogen blowpipe. It is, perhaps,... | |
 | John Charles Buckmaster - 1863 - 284 pages
...without much light, but intense heat. The temperature may be increased by mixing hydrogen and oxygen in the proportion of two volumes of the former to one of the latter, and burning it from a safety jet. This is called the oxyhydrogen blowpipe. It is, perhaps,... | |
 | Robert Galloway - Chemistry - 1864 - 804 pages
...formula for water, according to this system, must therefore be H, O,* because hydrogen and oxygen combine in the proportion of two volumes of the former to one of the latter element, to form water. The atomic weights in this system are the same as those in the former... | |
 | Robert Galloway - Chemistry - 1864 - 808 pages
...formula for water, according to this system, must therefore be H2 O,* because hydrogen and oxygen combine in the proportion of two volumes of the former to one of £he latter element, to form water. The atomic weights in this system are the same as those in the... | |
 | Charles William Eliot, Frank Humphreys Storer - Chemistry, Inorganic - 1868 - 688 pages
...sulphate of zinc and charcoal is heated to dull redness, carbonic and sulphurous acids are evolved in the proportion of two volumes of the former to one of the latter gas, and pure oxide of zinc remains :— 2ZnS0 4 -)- C = 2ZnO + 2S0 2 + C0 2 . It would be quite... | |
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A mixture of hydrogen (an inflammable gas) with oxygen (an ingredient of atmospheric air), in the proportion of two volumes of the former to one of the latter... 
