...olefiant gas, and with the two acids of carbon, carbonic oxide, carbonic "acid, "he regarded the former as a compound of one atom of carbon and one of hydrogen, and the second as a compound of one atom of carbon and two of hydrogen, and similarly for the two oxides...

...olefiant gas, and with the two acids of carbon, carbonic oxide and carbonic "acid," he regarded the former as a compound of one atom of carbon and one of hydrogen and the second as a compound of one atom of carbon and two of hydrogen, arid similarly for the two oxides...

...been formed. This was primarily due to John Dalton, a Manchester schoolmaster. It had been noticed by Wenzel, by Richter, by Wollaston, and by Cavendish...he supposed were the relative weights of the atoms. Dalton-s work was first expounded by Thomas Thomson, Professor at Glasgow, in his System of Chemistry,...

...fills the pores of the gaseous matter, Mayer regarded the heat produced as the equivalent of the work expended on the gas. From the known alteration of...Glasgow, in his System of Chemistry, published in 18o5, and subsequently in Dalton's own System of Chemical Philosophy, the three volumes of which were...