... quality. It is not a supporter of combustion ; but, on the contrary, extinguishes all burning bodies that are immersed in it. No animal can live in it ; but yet it exerts no injurious action either on the lungs or on the system at large, the privation... Elements of Chemistry: For the Use of Schools - Page 162by John Johnston - 1850 - 383 pagesFull view - About this book
| Edward Turner - 1828 - 516 pages
...vegetables, and is distinguished from other gases more by negative characters than any stiiking quality. It is not a supporter of combustion ; but, on the...It is not inflammable like hydrogen, though, under favourable circumstances, it may be made to unite with oxygen. Water, when deprived of air by ebullition,... | |
| Edward Turner - 1828 - 516 pages
...vegetables, and is distinguished from other gases more by negative characters than any striking quality. It is not a supporter of combustion ; but, on the...bodies that are immersed in it. No animal can live m it ; but yet it exerts no injurious action either on the lungs or on the system at large, the privation... | |
| Jacob Green - 1829 - 626 pages
...gases more by negative characters than by any striking quality. It is not a supporter of combustion j but, on the contrary, extinguishes all burning bodies...being the sole cause of death. It is not inflammable, though, under favourable circumstances, it may be made to unite with oxygen. Water, when deprived of... | |
| Edward Turner - 1830 - 616 pages
...vegetables, and is distinguished from other gases more by negative characters than any striking quality. It is not a supporter of combustion ; but, on the...system at large, the privation of oxygen gas being the solecause of death. It is not inflammable like hydrogen, though, under favourable circumstances, it... | |
| Edward Turner - 1832 - 638 pages
...vegetables, and is distinguished from other gases more by negative characters than by any striking quality. It is not a supporter of combustion; but, on the contrary,...bodies that are immersed in it. No animal can live in iti but yet it exerts no injurious action either on the lungs or on the system at large, the privation... | |
| 1845 - 1254 pages
...no one with which it combines by mere mixture, or by the action of heat under common circumstances. It is not a supporter of combustion ; but on the contrary...live in it ; but yet it exerts no injurious action on the lungs or on the system at large, the privation of oxygen gas being the sole cause of death.... | |
| Edward Turner - 1835 - 714 pages
...burning bodies that are immersed in it. No animal ean live in it; but yet it exerts no injurious aetion either on the lungs or on the system at large, the privation of oxygen gas being the sole eause of death. It is not inflammable like hydrogen; though, under favourable eireumstanees, it may... | |
| Edward Turner - 1837 - 436 pages
...cent. It is distinguished from other gases more by negative characters than by any striking quality. It is not a supporter of combustion ; but, on the...oxygen gas being the -sole cause of death. It is not in^ flammable like hydrogen ; though, under favourable circumstances, it may be made to unite with... | |
| Edward Turner - 1840 - 696 pages
...vegetables, and is distinguished from other gases, more by negative characters than by any striking quality. It is not a supporter of combustion ; but, on the...lungs or on the system at large, the privation of ox3Tgen gas being the sole cause of death. It is not inflammable like hydrogen; though under favourable... | |
| Richard Dennis Hoblyn - 1841 - 314 pages
...taste, or smell. It is a singularly inert element. It does not change the blue colour of vegetables. It is not a supporter of combustion ; but, on the contrary, extinguishes the flame of any burning body immersed in it. It does not support respiration : an animal soon dies... | |
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