On the properties of matter, the principles of chemistry, and the nature and construction of aeriform fluids, or gases / [E. Peart].

  • Peart, E. (Edward), 1756?-1824
Date:
1792
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Credit: On the properties of matter, the principles of chemistry, and the nature and construction of aeriform fluids, or gases / [E. Peart]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    no figns of acidity, and is in its moft perfeft ftate; as is the cafe with pure nitrous acid, which, by means of the ather it acquires, by expofure to i the adion of fire, or the eledric fluid, becomes perfectly aeriform, and is in fad pure air. Inflammable airy is, therefore the moft perfed of the phlogiftic aeriform fluids with bafes of alkaliy and pure air of the cetherial fluids with bafes of the acid principle. If thefe two be mixed together, in a proper proportion, they will have little fenfible adion upon each other, becaufe each atmofphere is fo fully and widely extended around its refpec- tive bafis, as to be fcarcely excited and nearly inadive; but, if they be ftill more extended by fire, they will then adually feparate from their former arrangement, and, acquiring adivity by ignition, will them/elves combine and form fire, and> communicating their adivity to the refl, the whole of the phlogiftic and <etherial atmofpheres will rufh together ; their refpedive bafes, by that means, will be brought into contali and form a neutral compound,—water ;—and, the phlogiftic and *etherial atmofpheres, thus violently acquiring-