Researches chemical and philosophical: chiefly concerning nitrous oxide or dephlogisticated nitrous air and its respiration / By Humphry Davy.

  • Davy, Humphry, Sir, 1778-1829.
Date:
1800
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Credit: Researches chemical and philosophical: chiefly concerning nitrous oxide or dephlogisticated nitrous air and its respiration / By Humphry Davy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The firft Refearch in this work chiefly relates to the production of nitrous oxide and the ana* lyfis of nitrous gas and nitrous acid. In this there is little that can be properly called mine ; and if by repeating the experiments of other chemifts, I have fomelimes been able to make more minute obfervations concerning phaeno- mena, and to draw different conclulions, it is wholly owing to the ufe I have made of the inftruments of invcftigation difcovered by the illuftrious fathers of chemical philolbphy,* and fo fuccefsfully applied by them to the difeovery of truth. In the fecond Refearch the combinations and compofition of nitrous oxide are inveftigated, and an account given of its decompofition by moft of the combuftible bodies. The third Refeareh contains obfervations on the action of nitrous oxide upon animals, and * Cavendifh, Prieftley, Black, Lavoifier, Schecle, Kir- wan, Guyton, BerthoHet, &c,